Please visit CTDLC iTeach webpage. You should also discuss it with your college's Academic Dean and also your college's local Director of Distance Learning.

Here's what participants are saying about the "iTeach Essentials" course: “Completing the iTeach Essentials program not only helped me develop course design and instructional strategies for online teaching, it also helped me rethink my “on ground” classes, too. From engaging students at the onset of each unit to assessing the outcomes, from 1000-point grading system to reorganizing group work, from promoting discussion to questioning strategy, and from course content to transitions…iTeach Essentials helped me reevaluate my approach to teaching in all settings! It is both rigorous and worthwhile.”               Martin Hart, MCC   “I have learned (experienced) what it is like to be an online student. This may truly be the most significant thing I have learned in the course....For eight weeks I walked in the skin of a student. That has provided a level of understanding that would not have been possible without iTeach Essentials or a similar course….”               David Swift, NVCC   “I found iTeach to be very well conceived, thought out, organized, and facilitated. There is nothing I can think of that wasn't covered…. The course structure and alert instructors provided room for discussion of any questions any of us had. iTeach has been the most enjoyable, useful, and satisfying training I've gone through in over a decade.”               Tom White-Hassler, MCC “At the beginning of iTeach, I was teacher centered in my viewpoint of how on-line teaching would work. When I became aware of student centered education as the focus of on-line education, I needed a paradigm shift from my usual structure, to a new structure. I wasn’t sure what that structure would be in the first few weeks of iTeach, but as the lessons built upon themselves, I was able to see what I needed to do, to modify my teaching to be successful online."               Nancy Stover, MXCC

A Course for Faculty Designed & Developed
by the Connecticut Community Colleges

About iTeach Essentials
The iTeach Essentials course is a 9-week, fully-online learning opportunity for faculty that was developed by the Connecticut Community College System. The course is targeted specifically at faculty who are interested in teaching fully online courses. Online teaching is not about knowing which buttons to push in Blackboard. Although technical proficiency supports online teaching, the ability to communicate effectively online, facilitate community and interaction, design effective online assignments, learning objectives, and course structure are paramount to the success of online learning. Topics in this course include both pedagogical as well as technical best practices of online teaching and classroom management.

AS OF THE FALL OF 2011, THE COURSE HAS BEEN LICENSED TO THE CONNECTICUT DISTANCE LEARNING CONSORTIUM.  For more information about the course, plus registration and upcoming session dates, please visit the CTDLC iTeach webpage.  There is now a fee associated with registration. Faculty who are interested in attending may wish to contact their college's Academic Dean or DL director for additional information. There are three options for registration through CTDLC: 

• A college may decide to pay for an instructor's registration. (The college, rather than the individual, will register the person for the course ih this case.)
• An instructor can use their professional development funds toward their registration. (The individual registers directly with CTDLC.)
• An instructor can pay out of pocket for their registration. (The individual registers directly with CTDLC.)

Can I use the iTeach Essentials course as part of my Additional Responsibilities?
If you are planning to use iTeach as part of Additional Responsibilities, please read this important information.

How can I find and register for iTeach courses? 
Please contact your college's Academic Dean if you are interested in attending, and check the CTDLC iTeach webpage for dates, etc.

Who contributed to the development of the iTeach Essentials course?
Please see our list of Course Contributors.