The Office of Multimodal Learning offers faculty the opportunity to earn a Master Online Mentorship certification that may be used as evidence of professional development and teaching effectiveness for a performance review (subject to Chair and Dean approval). 

Faculty who are accepted into the program and complete all of the following requirements for certification will receive a $2,500 stipend:

Requirements

Pre-Requisites 

• Faculty pursuing the Master Online Mentorship Certification must have completed all the requirements for the Master Online Teacher Certification (MOTC).
• Faculty must be teaching at least two online course during the academic year they are pursuing certification. 

General Requirements
Note: These can be customized to meet faculty interest and specialization

• Complete the Master Online Mentor asynchronous course
  • The course provides a refresher on planning, design & development and implementation with active teaching strategies for online learning and universal design for learning. The course houses resource guides for mentor to use throughout the process.
     
• Individual Mentorship
  • Connect with CWU Mentee
  • Develop plan of action for online course development
  • Schedule mentor check-ins and utilize resource documents as benchmarks
  • Complete online course review of newly developed course
     
• Group Mentorship
  • Develop workshop with online teaching focus
  • Facilitate workshop 3x per term
  • Create on-demand version of workshop
  • Participate as a MML Liason to a department
     
• Online Course Reviews
  • Complete three online course reviews on behalf of MML in an academic year (i.e. across Fall, Winter, Spring quarters) generally taking 6-12 hours of dedicated time per course and coordinating feedback with peer instructor
     
• Continuing Development
  • In the year following completion of the Mentorship Certification, act as an MML-sponsored mentor for your academic department assisting with course development, review, and learning tool implementation and pilots.
  • Faculty who have completed the aforementioned requirements will be invited to complete additional peer course reviews on behalf of MML at an additional reward of $300 per course reviewed.

Application

Priority deadline for the first cohort is June 3rd, 2022.  

To apply you will need:

• Letter of interest from faculty
• Letter of support from chair
• Complete application

Questions please contact Forrest Hollingsworth, Forrest.H@cwu.edu or Delayna Breckon Delayna.Breckon@cwu.edu