Asynchronous Online Courses
The following online courses are available to Ohio State instructors and instructional support staff each semester. Autumn 2025 courses conclude on December 31—register now to fast track your learning or check back in January for Spring 2026 courses.
Building Students’ AI Fluency
Learn how to redesign elements of your course to promote students’ AI fluency. This course builds your understanding of the university-wide AI Fluency initiative, the fluency outcomes, and ways to promote critical thinking and academic integrity as students learn about and use AI for coursework.
Course Design for Online Courses
Designing an online course can be challenging. This in-depth experience will guide you to apply a step-by-step course design process known as backward design and integrate evidence-based practices for creating an effective and supportive online learning environment.
Introduction to Teaching Online
Designed to support Ohio State instructors who will be teaching online, this introductory course explores the key considerations and affordances of the online learning environment and guides you to begin making choices for your own online teaching.
Technology-Enhanced Teaching
This course explores evidence-based practices and examples of practical applications to effectively incorporate learning technologies into your class activities, assignments, and teaching strategies.
On-Demand Videos
At 90 minutes or less, these on-demand videos make it easy to fit learning into your schedule. Select from the offerings below to enhance your online teaching, expand your learning technology toolkit, find new ways to engage your students, and more.
- Academic Integrity in Online Courses
- Active Learning with Technology
- Carmen Essentials for Student Success
- Designing Assignments for Your Online Course
- Effective Grading in Carmen
- Engaging Students in Online Collaboration
- Enhancing Program Assessment with Carmen Outcomes and Nuventive
- Increasing Student Engagement with Top Hat
- Instructional Approaches to Hybrid Courses
- Making Your Course Accessible to All Learners
- Promoting Interaction and Engagement in CarmenZoom
- Supporting Program Improvement through Nuventive and Carmen Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Resource Center
This website of curated resources for educators is developed and maintained through a cross-unit collaboration with partners across the university. Find extensive documentation on how to use Ohio State’s Learning Systems Toolsets and browse Teaching Topics on a range of instructional strategies and best practices.
Read more about these opportunities at go.osu.edu/on-demand-learning.