EPIC is a faculty development program designed to increase an experienced faculty member's mastery of online teaching and pedagogy.

EPIC-110: EPIC Exemplary Course Capstone – A certified EPIC Online Teaching faculty member, with supervisor recommendation, will update an existing online course to achieve exemplary status. The faculty member will be assigned an instructional designer for a semester to act as a consultant and mentor. In addition to working with the instructional designer, faculty will also be placed in a learning cohort where they share with other faculty their course updates.

The faculty member will focus on four areas in his or her course: improving instructor presence, improving student-to-student engagement, improving content engagement and increasing equity. The instructional designer will help choose four goals that align with these areas and will work with the faculty member during the semester to fulfill these goals.

Requirements

In order to earn the EPIC Master Online Teaching Certification, a faculty member must successfully complete the following:

• Prerequisite accessibility courses (ACC-110: Accessible Documents, ACC-120: Accessible PowerPoint and ACC-131: Accessible Videos) within the last three years
• One of the elective courses (EPIC-107, EPIC-108 or EPIC-109)
• EPIC-110 (see participant eligibility requirements below)

Elective courses

• EPIC-107: EPIC Planning for Accessibility –This course discusses accessibility law and standards and how to apply the standards in developing and delivering accessible content. Additionally, the course helps instructors in creating a plan for creating accessible material.
• EPIC-108: EPIC Teaching and Learning With Technology – This course teaches advanced concepts in incorporating technology tools in online learning to foster student engagement and success in online courses.  Instructors will learn how to use technology to differentiate instruction and meet various learner needs. 
• EPIC-109: Evaluating Your Course Design –This course will provide an in-depth review of the current EPIC Quality eLearning Standards. Participants will use the standards to evaluate their courses and create an action plan to align their course design to meet them. EPIC Certification is a prerequisite to this course.

EPIC-110 eligibility requirements

• Earned EPIC Online Teaching Certification
• Supervisor approval
• No current disciplinary procedures
• Online teaching experience, with at least four semesters in the last five years
• A personally developed course (courses developed by a colleague are not eligible to be used for the Master Certification Process)

EPIC-110 participants create a video tour of their exemplary course upon completion. Some can be seen on this YouTube playlist.