Participants gain the experience of being an online learner and the opportunity to explore the kinds of learning experiences that are possible to create in an online course at Boston College.

The focus of the course is to guide faculty in the use of the Community of Inquiry Framework to develop their online courses. As participants learn and put into practice the principles of online course design that will be covered, they will reflect on their experience in this course as a learner and how they want their students to experience their course. These insights will form the basis of their initial ideas that faculty will bring to their Course Development Team in the beginning stages of the course development process. 

Participants can expect to average 3-4 participation hours per week in this 4-week asynchronous course.