Professional Learning PLEASE NOTE: As of August 2023, the online mentoring program is not yet available for 2023-24 as we await a new MOU.

MiraCosta Online Mentors offer a variety of courses for in-depth online education-related professional learning. These courses support faculty in changing or enhancing the design and/or instruction of any distance education course section, with the intent of improving student access, equity, and/or success.

The courses:

are customized and facilitated by MiraCosta Online Mentor faculty, for MiraCosta faculty
have been adapted from @ONE courses
are designed to be completed in 4 weeks, with about 10 hours of engagement each week
provide a certificate for each participant upon successful course completion
will be offered on a repeating basis
The second courses launch on April 03. Register now or see below for more details about the course options.

Intro to Asynchronous Online Teaching and Learning

Great teaching can happen anywhere, but teaching online requires different skills, strategies and tools than in a traditional face-to-face classroom. In this 4-week course you'll gain proficiency in the unique qualities and perspectives of masterful online teaching, including powerful ways to support the success of online students, how to lay a foundation for a productive learning community, and infusing your course with your distinctive presence. We'll walk you through the pertinent federal, state, and local regulations impacting online teaching, and set you on a path to designing success for you and your students!

Facilitators: Denise Villarrial Nealon and Kent McCorkle

Register now and learn to enhance your online course to provide more equitable and user-friendly experiences to students.

Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning

Are you looking for the secret sauce for building community and fostering meaningful student-student interactions? Well, you've found it. Research shows that online students are more invested in a class when they have an instructor who cares about their learning success and this relationship is even more important for underserved students. But conveying your human presence, empathy, and awareness in an online class requires intention and a toolkit of effective practices. In this class, you will be immersed in a supportive online learning community as you develop humanized practices for your online course that will lay an inclusive foundation for community building and collaboration.

Facilitators: Angela Senigaglia and Thao Ha

Register now and learn to enhance your online course to provide more equitable and user-friendly experiences to students.

Creating Accessible Course Content

Creating Accessible Online Courses provides an overview of accessibility within online courses, focusing on the skills you will need to make your course both technically accessible and usable to a broad range of students. The course covers how to use online tools, including your course management system (CMS), to create accessible resources, to retrofit existing resources, and to curate new resources. The focal point of the course is learning how to use editors (both in your CMS and in common software, such as Microsoft Word) to enhance accessibility.

Facilitators: Debra Sayble and Robert Kelley

Register now and learn to enhance your online course to provide more equitable and user-friendly experiences to students.