Project+OLLIE


 * [[image:ollie.JPG align="right" caption="No, not that Ollie"]]O n L ine L earning for I owa E ducators **
 * (Project OLLIE) **

Project OLLIE is a professional development sequence, aimed to give educators comprehensive, systemic professional development in online pedagogy in conjunction with the Iowa Online Teaching Standards, at an affordable price for educators. Courses are offered as catalog courses through the AEA as well as modules delivered locally by LEAs.

The professional development in Project OLLIE brings educators in collaboration with other Iowa educators, building content collectively and sharing classroom experience to benefit professional growth. Project OLLIE is the professional development component of the Iowa Ed Tech ARRA grant, to build capacity within the state to deliver online learning.

OLLIE contains 5 components: • Introduction to the Online Learner (1 credit) • Technology for Online Instruction (2 credits) • Online Instructional Design (2 credits) • Facilitation (2 credits) • Assessment, Feedback, and Evaluation (2 credits)

These courses were partially built in conjunction with Drake University, which will use these courses as the core of its online instructor certificate, a 15-credit program to be offered in summer 2011.