What is a Master Online Teacher (MOT) certificate, and what can it do for me?
The master online teacher (MOT) certificate is a noncredit certificate issued by the Illinois Online Network, an outreach program of the University of Illinois. It is comprised of three required courses, Online Learning: An Overview, Instructional Design for Online Course Development, and Student Assessment in Online Courses; a core choice between Technology Tools for Online Learning and Encouraging Communication in Online Courses; an elective (either Web Design Principles for Online Educators, Issues and Strategies for Faculty Training, Copyright, the TEACH Act, and Intellectual Property Issues in Education, or Multimedia Principles for Online Educators); and the capstone Practicum course. When you have a master online teacher certificate, you have the evidence that you know about online learning, how to do it, and that you have done it successfully.