Online Courses: Spring 2025
The Reinert Center supports instructors for the full continuum of teaching online including: preparing to teach online for the first time, online course design, assessment of online courses, as well as strategies and techniques for effective online teaching. Below is our current list of full, online course offerings. These courses can be used for credit in our Online University Teaching Skills Certificate or they may be taken by individuals not enrolled in the certificate.
Assessing the Online Student is a week-long asynchronous course that surveys strategies and practices for assessing student learners in online/distance formats. By the end of the course, participants will distinguish between different types of online assessments, consider practices for creating inclusive assessments, and explore strategies for providing online feedback to students. Participants are encouraged to think about course topics and strategies in an online/distance course of their choosing by drafting or re-drafting a course assessment plan.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Distance Teaching
The Introduction to Online Teaching is a fully-online asynchronous course that provides a pedagogical foundation for Saint Louis University faculty who are new to the online teaching environment. The course provides faculty an opportunity to gain the experience of an online 鈥渟tudent鈥� and to experience a fully-online course that has been designed to align with the University鈥檚 Online Course Design Rubric while developing a plan for an online course.
If you are an A&S faculty member who needs to complete this course in time to meet your college deadlines, this is the session you should register for
This one-week course examines productive faculty-student and student-student interaction in online courses. Participants will develop facilitation practices that align with standards outlined in the SLU Online Course Design Rubric, and the federal requirements for "regular and substantive interaction."
Prerequisite: Introduction to Distance Teaching
The Introduction to Online Teaching is a fully-online asynchronous course that provides a pedagogical foundation for Saint Louis University faculty who are new to the online teaching environment. The course provides faculty an opportunity to gain the experience of an online 鈥渟tudent鈥� and to experience a fully-online course that has been designed to align with the University鈥檚 Online Course Design Rubric while developing a plan for an online course.
This course is a week-long asynchronous experience that will allow participants to intentionally apply a specific process for rubric construction for online courses. This course is open to any university instructor interested in constructing or revising an assignment rubric including but not limited to rubrics for online discussion. By the end of the course, participants will be able to distinguish the differences among analytical, holistic and single point rubrics; discern which rubric type would best suit the intention of their assignments; construct a rubric to apply to the assignment for which it was designed and assess their rubrics with the rubric for rubrics.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Distance Teaching AND Assessing the Online Student
Fall Online Courses for Principles Certificate
The following courses meet the online course requirements for participants enrolled in the Principles Certificate, and are only available for those enrolled in the certificate. For additional details regarding these courses, follow this link.
Teaching Philosophy: September 9 - 20 (registration is closed)
Course Design: September 30 - October 11 (registration is closed)
Learning Technologies: November 4 - 15
Fall Praxis Workshops
At its most basic meaning, praxis is the combination of theory and practice. As we delve into educational literature, we find a deeper meaning that combines reflection and action. And, as we then connect with Ignatian pedagogy, praxis is the intersection of experience, reflection, and action in teaching and learning contexts. Praxis workshops are a required component of our Foundations and Principles certificates, but are open to all SLU community members.
- Designing for Student Welfare: September 11, 9:00 - 10:30 am, Wuller 222
- Using Rubrics to Mitigate AI Dependence: October 2, 1:30 - 3:00 pm, Wuller 222
- Supporting Neurodivergent Learners: October 22, 1:30 - 3:00 pm, Des Peres 213 (room change)
- Effective Lecture Strategies: October 31, 9:00 - 10:30 am, Wuller 222
- Against Correction: Giving Effective Feedback on Writing: November 6, 9:00 - 10:30 am, Zoom