MLA is increasing the availablity of MLA CE courses, by making them web based instruction courses. Not only do they currently offer some web courses on their site, but they offering a development institute to transform MLA approved CE traditional face-to-face courses into web based courses.

The MLA CE Institute: Developing Web-Based Instruction, is a week-long institute on translating classroom continuing education (CE) courses to a Web-based environment.
It will be held March 12-17, 2006. Only 16 scholars will be chosen.

If you have CE class that you would like to transfer your CE course to a Web-based format, this
institute is where you can learn to make your course web based. Scholars will learn instructional design principles and practices to transform the traditional face-to-face CE experience into a richer, more learner-centered online course. Faculty will emphasize course organization and logistics, interactivity, facilitative technologies, and effective teaching methods optimized forvarious learning styles. Scholars will gain techniques for communicationwith and among students and will develop timely and appropriate activities to evaluate student progress and measure student learning, with the goal of continually improving course quality. Development time will be available for scholars to work on their own and with faculty. Scholars in the program must have their completed courses approved forMLA CE contact hours, but will retain ownership of the course.

A scholar's final Web-based CE course must take a mentored approach to teaching as opposed to a self-paced or tutorial approach.

The deadline for to apply for the institute is December 16, 2005.
For more information about the institute go to: http://www.mlanet.org/education/institute/index.html

If you are interested in the current list of web based MLA CE courses go to:
http://www.mlanet.org/education/web/web_courses.html