(Formerly "Taking It Online") This course can count toward the Certificate of Proficiency in Teaching for eLearning. In search of some hands-on time for taking the next step with the online elements of your teaching? This comprehensive online course invites you to roll up your sleeves and dive deep into the architecture of effective eLearning. Together we'll lay the foundation, frame the structure, and detail the design of your own eLearning blueprint, covering core principles and best practices for supporting learning online. Participants will learn by doing as they apply course learning to their own course(s) and teaching contexts. Whether you are updating or revamping an existing online course, moving a face-to-face course online for the first time, or experimenting with blended or hy-flex learning, this course is your scaffold to constructing a resilient and pedagogically sound learning environment on eClass and beyond, tailored to your unique educational landscape. This course is actively facilitated by a Teaching Commons instructor, and participants will have the opportunity to raise questions, seek personalized support, and access a wealth of resources via email, online office hours, or the course's eClass platform, ensuring your blueprint evolves from concept to concrete reality. By the end of this course, participants will have: • Made significant and meaningful changes to an existing course for enhanced online learning • Explored a range of online learning activities from the student and instructor perspectives • Applied pedagogical best practices to the design of online learning • Practiced building online learning environments using eClass Note: Throughout this course, participants can work individually or with their teaching team (i.e. with co-instructors, TAs, library support, or others) to make desired changes to an existing course (ideally one of their own upcoming courses). If you are working with a teaching team, please indicate this when registering. Note that all members of the teaching team must register separately for this course. This course is open to all course directors at York and no previous experience with online teaching is required. Participants can expect to spend a total of approximately 4-8 hours engaging with course content and activities. The course is designed asynchronously, meaning that while there are weekly deadlines, participants can complete each week’s tasks at any time that is convenient to them. Course Dates: June 3-28, 2024 Optional synchronous sessions take place on Wednesdays, 11 am-12 pm. Note that registration for this course closes on May 30th, 11:59 pm.