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Preparing Faculty to Teach Online
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Faculty are familiar with teaching in classrooms, but put them in a virtual classroom and they are often lost and unsure of how to proceed. The planning required to offer a quality online course is new to many faculty, as well as all of the delivery, communication, collaboration, assessment, and class management issues they will encounter. How can we prepare faculty to teach an online course? What are the obstacles to getting faculty to participate in preparation programs and how can they be overcome? At this session, hear how some institutions are preparing faculty to teach online.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Amy Ricci of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date/Time:
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Four Points Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center
1125 Boston Providence Turnpike
Norwood, MA
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Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $98
Non-Members: $223
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Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am -12:00pm Successful Online Faculty Development Programs: Five Key Elements
Speakers:
Alexandra Pickett, Associate Director of the SUNY Learning Network
Carolyn Siccama, Distance Learning Faculty Coordinator, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Shari McCurdy Smith, Associate Director Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning, University of Illinois at Springfield
This presentation is targeted to online faculty development practitioners and administrators. This workshop will present an overview of three award-winning online faculty development programs. Discussions will focus on sharing practical approaches focused around five key elements found in successful online faculty development programs.
1. Approaches to faculty development and training.
2. Approaches to insuring course quality.
3. Approaches to support: key roles.
4. Technology, tools, and approaches.
5. Approaches to program evaluation.
The session will consist of information presentation, demonstration, interaction, and discussion, and will provide an opportunity to reflect on and evaluate your faculty development program experiences, approaches, challenges. Models, tools, lessons learned, pitfalls to avoid, challenges to consider, and best practice examples will be shared. This workshop will engage you in activities and provide opportunities to work on how to adapt and use the methods, approaches, and best practices presented to develop, improve, or enhance the support of online faculty development and course design process in your own program or institution. We will discuss your questions, concerns, and issues, and your own perspectives on what constitutes good practice in online faculty development programs.
You should come away from this workshop with an overview of key factors and considerations in effective online faculty development programs. Practical and adaptable materials and resources that you can use and adapt from each program will be distributed at the session.
This 3-hour session will give you the opportunity to:
- Identify the top 10 challenges you face in developing, improving, or maintaining your faculty development program.
- Clarify achievable goals that address your faculty development program needs.
- Understand the 5 key elements in successful faculty development program design.
- Explore strategies, tools, and processes developed for these purposes.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Turning Pedagogy into Practice
Speaker: Phylise Banner, Instructional Technologist, Skidmore College
Since the initial offering of online classes in 1997, faculty members at Skidmore College’s University Without Walls (UWW) have developed online classes without the use of a course management system. Instead, they have the unique opportunity to master online course development and to work with the UWW instructional technologist to develop each course individually to meet their own pedagogical style. This presentation will explore the model of faculty training in place at UWW, and offer alternatives to the traditional “learn the CMS” approach – opening avenues of innovation in hypertext, interaction, course architecture and design.
2:00pm - 3:00pm The Sacred Heart University Digital Learning Certification Program
Speakers:
David Demers, Ph.D., Director of Instructional Technology, Sacred Heart University
Ekaterina Ginzburg, Digital Learning Support Specialist, Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University has developed a unique Digital Learning Faculty Certification Program (DLFCP) to provide faculty training in the development and delivery of online courses. The DLFCP is an 8-week, modular program offered entirely online to faculty ‘scholars’ which provides a unique opportunity for peer interaction and community development in an electronic environment. What makes this course distinctive is that we focus on the principles of good teaching throughout the program, rather than emphasizing the technological aspects of the delivery platform, to increase faculty comfort and to foster connections amongst the participants. Each module provides information on key topics associated with the development and delivery of online courses, such as the principles of effective instructional design, communication and time management, and provides faculty with a valuable online learning experience from the student perspective. We also base discussion on topics such as developing an ‘e-Personality’ and issues of copyright in the digital age.
Now entering its second year, the DLFCP has drawn tremendous interest from both full time and adjunct faculty at Sacred Heart University alike. Graduates of the program have expressed how valuable the learning experience has been to them not only for meeting the challenge of developing and teaching online, but in rethinking their approach to teaching their face-to-face courses as well. At this session, we will review the curriculum of this highly successful program and discuss the challenges faced during the initial planning and development stages. We will also provide an overview of the successes we have had thus far with the program in transforming Sacred Heart University’s online course offerings.
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Alexandra Pickett
Alexandra Pickett is the Associate Director of the SUNY Learning Network (SLN), the asynchronous learning network for the State University of New York under the offices of the Provost and Advanced Learning and Information Services. A pioneer in instructional design and faculty development for asynchronous web-based teaching and learning environments, Ms. Pickett has since 1994 led the development of the instructional design methods, support services, and resources used by SLN to support the development and delivery of full web online courses by SUNY campuses and faculty. She has spent the past 13 years conceptualizing and implementing scaleable, replicable, and sustainable institutionalized faculty development and course design and delivery processes that in the 2005-2006 academic year resulted in the delivery of 4,000+ courses with 100,000+ student enrollments. Her leadership and direction of this area of the program were recognized when in 2001 SLN was honored to receive the first Sloan Consortium Award for Excellence in ALN Faculty Development. In 2002 SLN received the Sloan-C award for Excellence in Institution-Wide ALN Programming, and the Educause award for Systematic Progress in Teaching and Learning for 2001. Most recently SLN was honored with the 2006 USDLA 21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Leaning. Today, working with 40+ of the 64 SUNY institutions, she has directly supported or coordinated the development of more than 3,000 SUNY faculty and their fully online courses. She has published and presented nationally and internationally.
Speaker:
Carolyn Siccama
Carolyn Siccama is the Distance Learning Faculty Coordinator in the Division of Continuing Studies and Corporate Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. In this role she helps to manage all aspects of the UMass Lowell Online Program, primarily focusing on faculty development and training. In 2005, she was part of the Continuing Studies team which won two awards from the Sloan Consortium in recognition for excellence in online teaching and learning. Carolyn is also an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate School of Education at UMass Lowell. She has presented at numerous conferences on the topics of support staff in online education, faculty development and qualitative research.
Speaker:
David Demers
David Demers, with over 11 years experience in higher education, Dr. Demers currently manages the Office of Instructional Technology (OIT) which oversees the “Digital Learning” initiative at Sacred Heart University. Over the past couple years, he has worked with an interdisciplinary group to refine institutional policies pertaining to digital learning and establish a professional development and training program designed to support faculty interested in getting started with online learning. He has previously worked as an Instructional Design Specialist at the University of Connecticut Health Center, as Director of the Faculty Center for Learning Development at the University of Hartford and as a Professor of Biology at Springfield Technical Community College.
Speaker:
Ekaterina Ginzburg
Ekaterina Ginzburg currently holds the position of Digital Learning Support Specialist at Sacred Heart University. She was instrumental in the design and development of the Digital Learning Faculty Certificate Program (DLFCP) and is primarily responsible for conducting the course and working closely with participating ‘scholars’ as they progress through the program. In addition, Ekaterina provides one-on-one consultation for SHU faculty on issues of instructional design for online courses and technical support for students enrolled in online courses. Ekaterina earned a B.A. from Russian State University in Philology with the concentration on world literature and foreign languages and a M.A. from Fairfield University in Instructional Design.
Speaker:
Phylise Banner Klein
Phylise Banner Klein is an information designer currently working in instructional technology and distance education for the University Without Walls at Skidmore College, where her responsibilities include the direction and implementation of technology initiatives related to Skidmore’s adult degree completion program. Throughout her nine-year career at Skidmore, she has worked closely with faculty, staff, students and IT managers to design, develop and deliver technology-based solutions across departments and disciplines. Working within University Without Walls has offered her the opportunity to experiment with the integration of emerging technologies in order to best serve Skidmore’s adult students at a distance, and to create a community of lifelong learners. Her current research focuses on the use of Web 2.0 applications to establish community and visual presence in the online classroom.
Speaker:
Shari McCurdy Smith
Shari McCurdy Smith is the Associate Director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning and an adjunct lecturer in the Educational Leadership Department at the University of Illinois at Springfield. She has created, developed and teaches fully online graduate courses in educational technology. McCurdy directs grant projects that examine the assessment of learning outcomes, diversity in the classroom, and the use of synchronous technologies in online learning. She has presented at numerous national technology conferences on topics ranging from best practices in online learning, educational applications of Web 2.0, and faculty workload.
Related Media Files:
SacredHeart.pdf
Program_info_NERCOMP08.ppt
NERCOMPworkshop_5elements.ppt
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Sheration Norwood, the conference location, for $125 per night, standard queen guest room.
To make reservations contact the Sheraton Norwood at 781-769-7900 and request the "NERCOMP Room Block". The room block will be released on March 10, 2008.
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