Strategies for Ensuring a Successful Online Teaching Experience

High-level Online Faculty Support for Low-level Cost

If your online program is like most, you have more courses, more students, and more teachers moving online – and a budget that isn’t keeping up. The demand for strong online support is outstripping the funds available for it.
So how do you provide top-notch faculty support when you’re dealing with a shrinking budget?

Does your online faculty have everything it needs to be successful? Whether you use full-time faculty members, part-time adjuncts or some combination of the two, without the proper training and on-going support, no online teaching experience is going to be as positive as it should be. But how is your online support team supposed to do its job, when it doesn’t get the budget it needs to function properly?

That’s a dilemma facing many college campuses. As online programs take off, both in popularity and in scope, support budgets frequently lag far behind. More and more, support teams are relying on resourcefulness, innovation and “tricks of the trade” to provide high-quality service at no-frills prices.

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High-level Online Faculty Support for Low-level Cost is led by Kaye Shelton, Dean of Online Education at Dallas Baptist University. DBU has an especially robust online program, with 34 fully online degree programs and a 92% student course completion rate. The school provides exceptional faculty support, despite a budget that presents stiff challenges.

In presentation, you’ll learn how DBU has balanced quality and cost. The seminar covers:

• Critical factors for online success.
• Efficient ways to keep faculty updated on the latest developments in online learning.
• A workable model for cost-effective online support.
• Free or low-cost software solutions for creating quality course design.
• Where to find highly competent, highly motivated support help–cheap.
• Essential website resources.
• Proven tips for high-quality course development on a budget.
• And much more.

You’ll get practical, use-it-now information to maintain a robust support program on a less-than-robust budget.

Who will benefit from this seminar:

• Directors of online programs
• Deans of distance learning
• Instructional designers
• Online faculty
• Distance education administrators

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