Full course description
This fully online, self-paced course is designed for educators, staff, and professionals who want to design engaging, high-quality non-credit courses. Whether you're building a course for outreach, professional development, continuing education, or lifelong learning, this course will help you bring your ideas to life in a flexible digital format.
Through video demonstrations, guided activities, and practical tools, you’ll learn to design, build, and publish an online course that reflects your expertise and meets your learners’ needs—without the constraints of a for-credit academic structure.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify the unique goals and characteristics of non-credit online courses
- Design a learner-centered, accessible course structure for asynchronous learning
- Apply Penn State’s branding and visual identity to your course materials
- Record screen and voiceover videos for online instruction
- Develop learning activities and informal assessments that support engagement
- Organize course content in Canvas for clarity and ease of navigation
- Evaluate your course using accessibility, clarity, and user experience principles