EFOL

The Trefny Center offers the paced, asynchronous Engineering and Facilitating Online Learning (EFOL) course for faculty to experience online learning from the perspective of a learner as they work through their initial course design. This five-week online course for faculty is intended to support the development of the highest-quality online courses. Completion of this course is required before building or teaching any online course at Mines. Participation in the course will require approximately 10-hours of effort each week and faculty must receive an average grade of 80% on assignments to “pass” the course. After completion of the course faculty work collaboratively with an Online Learning Experience Designer (OLED) to continue the design and building. The OLED will also coach the faculty as they teach the first section. We will offer $2,500 in professional development funds to selected full-time teaching or tenure/tenure-track faculty for successfully completing the EOL course. This money will be allocated directly to the faculty member’s PD fund to help compensate for the time commitment. In addition, graduate students are welcome to enroll in the course. We will document completion of the course, but it is not credit-bearing and will not appear on transcripts. Graduate students will not receive funding to participate, but will also not be charged for the course.

For more information about EFOL: https://trefnycenter.mines.edu/whatweoffer/online/

Registration for EFOL