Faculty Development for your Online Instructors
Online Instructor Success: What’s It Take?
It’s rare that an instructor can make the leap to the online classroom without a few missteps. Some are minor, and easily correctable while others are more serious and can slowly erode the online experience for instructors and the students they teach. Make sure you are familiar with the best practices of online teaching.
The continuing increase in online course offerings, the number of students enrolled in online courses, and the variety of e-learning technologies being implemented on campuses today all underscore the need for standards and guidelines to ensure online teaching success.
You probably already knew that, but did you know there are currently more than 100 specific competencies that have been determined to be instrumental for success in online teaching?
If online education is critical to your institution’s future, you will want to order this seminar. Led by Dr. Larry Ragan, Online Instructor Success: What’s It Take? discusses key competencies for online teaching success based on literature reviews, experience and expert interviews.
Dr. Ragan directs the design and development of a wide range of faculty development services and systems for the online World Campus at Pennsylvania State University. His areas of research include the articulation of strategies, techniques and methods that faculty can use to manage their online teaching workload and the definition of the core competencies required for online teaching success.
After viewing in this seminar, you will be able to:
- Describe the six categories of online instructor competencies.
- Determine instructional strategies to assist online instructors in acquiring these skills.
- Develop measurement strategies for assessing the readiness of online instructors.
- Provide a rationale for the ranking of these six categories.
- Suggest the application of the categories to the experience of the online instructor.
- Describe a series of sample tasks within each of the categories.
Who will benefit:
- Faculty
- Online Instructors
- Instructional Designers
- Distance Learning Coordinators
- Directors of Academic Affairs
- Faculty Developers
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Dr. Larry Ragan is the Director of Faculty Development for the World Campus at Pennsylvania State University. He has worked in online educational design and delivery for more than 11 years and has taught a variety of online courses and faculty development programs. He has presented internationally on the topics of instructional design, multimedia development, faculty development issues and instructional design for distance education.