Online course support designed for you.
If you are an educator seeking do-it-yourself online course design guidance and how-to training, we are your support team.
The Online Learning Toolkit provides course design instruction and professional development sessions about online teaching techniques for higher education faculty who teach online and around the world.
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Spring-On-Call
Jan 11, 2021 - August 15, 2021
Spring-On-Call is an online teaching support community for faculty teaching in asynchronous-online, synchronous-remote, and blended/hybrid modalities during the spring semester. Spring-On-Call members receive access to live online teaching support from facilitators who are active online faculty, instructional designers, faculty developers, and experts in online learning.
This program is the perfect solution for faculty or institutions seeking extra and ongoing online teaching support to carry us through an uncertain spring semester.
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Camp Operation Online Learning 2021
June 1, 2021 - July 6, 2021
Camp Operation Online Learning (COOL) is a six-week summer course design group that will guide you through the process of developing your online courses. Led by dynamic facilitators who are experts in online learning, COOL is dedicated to making the course design process accessible and enjoyable for higher educators at every level of experience and technology fluency.
This program is the perfect solution for faculty or institutions seeking extra and ongoing online teaching support including course design support. Stay tuned for more information about an advanced COOL cohort for Summer 2021 for educators seeking to build on their existing online learning and course design skills.
Register for Camp Operation Online Learning 2021
Our Programs & Services
We specialize in facilitating fun, energetic, and joyful professional development programs.
Our Aims & Objectives
Educators
Inspiring you to create original instructional materials using affordable, reliable, and user-friendly tools
Empowering you to simplify online course design with easy-to-master methods and processes
Teaching you to design accessible and engaging online learning experiences
Equipping you with great practices for teaching in online modalities including remote learning, blended, and hyflex learning scenarios
Staff & Admin
Supporting your faculty through every step of the course design process from concept to assessment
Developing your faculty in evidence-based online course design and teaching methods
Assessing and providing actionable recommendations to improve online courses and online program quality
Customizing training and development to the unique needs of your educators
What People Are Saying About Our Programs
Recent COOL Participant
Thank you for the excellent model of an online course. This attention to tone is often not present from other professional learning experiences I have had. The design that sets a sense of community is not easily created. I felt welcomed every time I entered the course and encouraged and invited me to learn.
Recent PD Session Participant
Navigating the remote learning session now and want to extend my gratitude for this, it has been most helpful and truly engaging. Your passion is amazing and your energy equally so. I've been teaching in Moodle for many years now, but always appreciate new ideas, and literally within 10 minutes I learned a few new tricks.
Recent COOL Participant
The passion and knowledge of the facilitators made the whole experience energizing. They made all the "campers" feel like we were colleagues and collaborators, not just students. Everything taught in theory was modeled in practice, and I believe both novice online instructors as well as seasoned veterans benefited from the content.
Our Team
In our 20+ years in education, we have served as college faculty, instructional designers, and online education specialists. We are passionate about online teaching and learning, education development, and learner experience. We use the OLT as a platform for helping educators learn how to design and deliver effective online instruction using practical approaches and sustainable methods.
Check out the latest from the OLT Team
Free Online and Remote Learning Resources from the OLT Team
Recent Free Resources
CC BY NC SA licensed resources
Fostering LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Online Learning Environments Webinar
Presented by Kim Myers
Why and How I Use Videos in My Online Teaching Webinar
Presented by Karen Costa
The Online Lecture Toolkit is a CC BY NC SA licensed resource.
The Online Lecture Toolkit is an OER website designed to provide educators with the tools they need to create engaging and effective online video content for educational purposes. The approaches outlined there are practitioner- and evidence-based and designed for educators at every level of technological fluency.
Remote Learning Resources
CC BY NC SA licensed resources
Coming Soon: OLT's Remote Learning Strategies Site
In the meantime, check out these resources...
Planning for Multiple Instructional Scenarios Infographic
UDL Can Save Us All This Fall ThinkUDL Podcast featuring the OLT
Giving Yourself a Pass