The document discusses a faculty development initiative at Virginia Commonwealth University to prepare faculty to teach online. Faculty participated in a one week face-to-face institute on online pedagogy, then took a two week online course as students. The goals were to experience online learning from a student perspective and receive support for developing their own online courses. Faculty found the online course experience too short and wanted more preparation. Key aspects of a successful online course identified were interaction between students and content, students and instructor, and preparation for learning through clear expectations and tutorials.
1. USING AN ONLINE COURSE TO
PREPARE FACULTY TO TEACH ONLINE:
FACULTY PERSPECTIVES
Britt Watwood, William “Bud” Deihl,
Joyce Kincannon, David A. McLeod
Virginia Commonwealth University
January 12, 2012
8. Allen and Seaman (2011) Going the Distance: Online Education in the United States, 2011
9. ONLINE COURSE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
One week F2F institute on pedagogy in May
Two week online course as student in July
2010 – Quality Matters BYOC
2011 – Home Grown Course
Peer groups / consultation for course development
through Fall and Spring
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Be a curatorThe resources and archives are amazing! And will continue to be created and sharedThe focus questions before the video or readingThe summary of ideas after a conversation about the presented conceptsCreating knowledge is better done collaboratively
Choose wisely Begin to Curate.Responsive with assignment feedbackSafe for questions. Safe for studentssaying out loud what they think!
Create collaborationUse expert questions to guide reading and use of multimedia.
Our Preparation sections consistently hadKey QuestionsLearning OutcomesTask list with datesTool tutorialsGroup membership assigned
the design of the course can assure that various communication channels are utilized. your expertise is critical help the students make sense of the material and work with it as they are readingbuilding it into the structure of the course can facilitate the process. Unique about this design model Evaluation of learning by student self\\
Evaluation as Self ReflectionMetacognition
Finally, Evaluation is an opportunity for the students to demonstrate that they have achieved the objectives they were challenged to master. The evaluation at the end of each module may be informal (resulting in feedback) or formal (resulting in a grade with feedback).