DEDE Professional Development Pathway

Interested in Digital Equity and Distance Education Professional Development (DEDE)? You made it to the right place! We offer a plethora of learning experiences, no matter your level of technical knowledge, to ensure that you are developing your own digital literacy. Many of our offerings are worth FLEX credit, so please keep that in mind as you are looking for hours. Find out more below about all of the PD opportunities and see what might be the best fit for you as you start your online teaching journey or look to learn more!

We suggest moving through the learning in the following pathway listed below. Each PD opportunity builds on the last to ensure continual learning and lifelong learning at that!

Have questions about any of the DEDE professional development opportunities? Please reach out to Crystala Button, cbutton@dvc.edu, DEDE Instructional Designer, to learn more.

Start Here: Build Digital Literacy

DVC's Beginner's Guide to Canvas

Faculty, in our Beginner's guide to Canvas (BGTC), you are able to access an introduction (or review) of Canvas basics whenever you need. Add yourself to this course so that you can learn more about how to build in Canvas, use the gradebook, create engaging interactions within your online course, and get the latest Canvas updates & how-tos. This course is self-paced and is worth 2.5 hours of FLEX credit. Enroll via GROW or add it in as an external training to get your time registered to your transcript. Review the Instructions to Add External Training (Word) document to get started. Feel free to retake this course each school year to keep up to date (and get those FLEX hours!).

Course Design Hub

We have created, curated, and built a collection of equity-first best practices, explanation of policies, and templates for online courses. In our Course design Hub (self-enroll to access), we give you all that you need to get started or push further in your online teaching journey. Like what you see? Download our templates from Canvas Commons into your course.

4CD's Becoming an Effective Online Instructor (BEOI)

Register for the district-wide professional development opportunity, Becoming an effective Online Instructor (BEOI). This 100% online course provides in-depth guidance over a 4-week period, where participants spend from 4 -10 hours per week on learning materials and assignments. In addition to your enrollment in the instructional BEOI course shell, participants are issued an individual BEOI Practice Canvas shell where you will create your own homepage and modules for your course. The BEOI Practice shell can later be copied over to a live teaching Canvas course, so what you create here is easily applied to your upcoming course assignments. Enroll now to satisfy the United Faculty (UF) requirement for preparation to teach in an online mode (union contract, Article 27). Certificates of Completion are issued to those who complete the course with a score of 80% or higher. Completion status is collected and shared with Deans and Department Chairs. Need more information? Please reach out to our 4CD Dean of Distance Education and Digital Equity, Emma Rogers (erogers@dvc.edu).

Branch Out: Equity & Digital Citizenship

DVC's Self-paced Accessibility Course

Learn more about online accessibility and how it lends to equity in DVC's "Self-Paced Accessibility" course. This self-paced course will teach you how to recognize the fundamentals for ensuring your online content is accessible to all learners. It will take you approximately 1-4 hrs to complete, with FLEX credit available to faculty who enroll via GROW or add to their transcript. The course is updated routinely to ensure the most current information. Once you are enrolled, you can continue to receive accessibility updates.

DVC's Peer Online Mentorship Program (POMP)

Our Peer Online Mentorship Program (POMP) assists instructors in aligning a previously taught, fully online and/or hybrid course to the Online Education Initiative’s CVC Course Design Rubric. This cohort runs each fall semester, beginning in September and running through early December (see POMP emails for a tentative schedule).

Peer Online Mentorship Program Overview:

- Applicants must compete the aforementioned DVC self-paced accessibility course prior to beginning the fall POMP cohort.
- Synchronous group trainings (via Zoom) run by your DEDE Team with “homework” to guide participants towards course alignment.
- Participants (those aligning a course) are paired with experienced coaches for in-depth mentoring on course design and accessibility.
- Coaching may take an additional 1 hr each week on top of the weekly synchronous Zoom meetings.
- Mentees will spend focused time on accessibility remediation for all course materials.
- At the end of the program, participants will complete course revisions, finalize accessibility, and submit to for alignment review and badging (CVC statewide badging available for fully online courses only.

Current POMP cohort information (Cohort is closed for applicants at of May 2024):

- Applications accepted throughout May 2024, with admission status notifications to be sent in early June 2024
- Current application (due May 28th at 5pm)
- POMP participants are paid a total of 25 hours according to their own Other Academic Services (OAS) rate for successful alignment
  - 15 hours for completing the POMP cohort in the fall and 10 for full alignment of fully online or hybrid course in the spring. Learn more about how to locate your OAS rate.

Stay on the Path: Continuing the Learning

Pop-up Learnings

Join your DEDE team members as we share tips, tricks, and best practices throughout the fall semester. Stay tuned to your email for more information. Want to see out Pop-up Learnings of the past? Take a look at our DEDE YouTube channel to watch and don't forget to count whatever you view (in full) as an external training on your GROW transcript.

DEDE Newsletter

Stay up-to-date with the latest DEDE happenings in our bi-weekly newsletter. Bookmark the link to the DEDE Newsletter - Google Slides for future access. Watch your DVC email for the every other week edition, or see the newsletter embedded below:

For the most accessible reading experience, check out the DE Newsletter - Plain Text - Google Docs version of the newsletter (past and present editions).

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