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Understanding Personality Traits of Online Instructors and Learners

This course will provide you with an overview of online instructors' and learners' personality traits. Participants will be provided with information about the traits themselves, as well as how to identify such traits, utilize them, and develop lessons to reach all students.

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This course provides you with a lifelong peer-to-peer learning opportunity through a specific Performance Group created within the Career Ed Lounge, a learning community of career education professionals. This allows you to learn and share with your peers at any time you want, even after you complete the course.

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Course Testimonials

"I found this training to be fascinating! I have actually done personality tests as ice breakers with my students, so I am familiar with their idiosyncrasies up front. But this training took it a step further by introducing techniques that would allow an instructor to impact each personality. Thank you for doing this. It is very meaningful, and I am excited to implement it. "

"The course was very interested. Overall, an excellent course. "

"Great class, enjoyed it a lot, and very beneficial. Thank You"

"This course was extremely interesting and useful to me. "

"Course was organized in a easy to follow format. Contained some interesting information everyone could benefit from."

"In this course I learned about the personality traits of online instructors and learners. Different theories were presented as well as methods of identifying personality traits. I enjoyed learning about the True Colors personality traits by identifying with the colors and relating back to the students. This can be implemented in organizing an online class and learning activities. I found this course to be very useful and I will use it to plan my online class by understanding my studentâ€™s different personality traits that directly affect their learning styles."

"I really enjoyed this course. It was interesting for me but also something that I can use to help benefit my teaching practices and improves outcomes in my students. "

"Very precise and very easy to understand. Thank you for the additional learnings"

Course Objectives

Module 1: Foundational Personality Trait Models

Describe how Hippocrates and Jung provided a foundation for personality trait models.
Explain the Myersâ€“Briggs Type Indicator.
Describe Keirseyâ€™s Temperaments.
Explain the True Colors Personality Assessment.

Module 2: Understanding True Colors Personality Traits

Describe the characteristics of blue personality traits.
Describe the characteristics of gold personality traits.
Describe the characteristics of green personality traits.
Describe the characteristics of orange personality traits.

Module 3: Successful Instructorsâ€™ & Learnersâ€™ Personality Traits

Describe successful instructor personality traits.
Explain how instructor personality traits lead to teaching styles.
Describe successful learner personality traits.
Describe IONâ€™s characteristics of successful online learners.

Module 4: Connecting Instructorsâ€™ & Studentsâ€™ Personality Traits

Investigate your instructor personality traits.
Explain how to recognize your learnersâ€™ personality traits.
Describe the role of online instructors to help students be successful.
Explain ways to take studentsâ€™ personality traits into consideration when teaching.

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Course Format

Can Start Anytime
Self-paced (within course enrollment timeframe)
4 Hours of Activities

Completion Requirements

Study Course Content
Pass ALL Required Quizzes

Digital Badge & Certificate of Completion

4 Hours of Continuing Education
Awarded upon successful completion of course

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Certification Credits

This course provides a Certificate of Completion with 4 hours of continuing education credits.
This course provides credit toward the Certified Higher Education Professional (CHEP) credential in the following specialization area(s):
- CHEP in Online Teaching
This course provides credit toward the continuing education requirements for CHEPs in all areas of specialization.

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