Posts Tagged ‘online faculty’
August 15 - Best Practices Help Dispel the Myths of Online Faculty Hiring Practices
By: Mary Bart in Distance Learning Administration
Despite the continuing mainstreaming of online education, there are a number of myths that continue to persist, particularly in terms of the hiring practices for online instructors, and whether institutions make a sufficient effort to integrate remote instructors into the campus culture.
July 12 - Creating an Evaluation Process for Online Faculty Members
By: Mary Bart in Online Workshops
Online teaching creates unique challenges and requires a distinct skill set – and that’s left many colleges and universities struggling to create a meaningful evaluation process for faculty. In this two-part workshop, Ginger Durham, manager of faculty development for the Georgia Board of Regents, will help you develop an evaluation process suited to the unique needs of your institution and its distance-learning program.
October 12 - Understanding What’s Needed for Online Teaching Success
By: Mary Bart in Faculty Development, Online Education
Larry Ragan, director of faculty development for Penn State World Campus, may have given a new spin to the old expression “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” Except, unlike the philosophical musing that’s become immortalized as one of those motivational posters, Ragan’s focus is on improving online learning.
August 10 - Helping Your Online Faculty Succeed: Q&A with Kaye Shelton
By: Christopher Hill in Online Education
While many online programs struggle with student retention issues, Dallas Baptist University serves has achieved an impressive 92% student course completion across its 34 fully online degree programs. Kaye Shelton, Dean of Online Education at Dallas Baptist University, shares some secrets for success.
August 7 - 11 Strategies for Managing Your Online Courses
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Online Education
If you think the flexibility of online teaching also means that it’s OK to “wing it” now and then, you’d be wrong. If anything, you have to be more organized, more consistent and more prepared for anything than ever before.
July 22 - Strategies for Preventing and Correcting Poor Faculty Evaluations
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
Online instructors receive poor evaluations for any number of reasons, including lack of experience, inadequate training, and poor communication skills. Other times, the poor reviews are more reflective of the course design than the instructor who’s teaching the course. That distinction is unimportant to the students.
June 25 - Five Tips for Designing an Online Faculty Workshop
By: Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti in Distance Learning Administration
What is the best way to train and support a beginning online faculty member? At some colleges, the only option is on site training held on the campus over a day, a weekend, or a period of days during the summer. These on-site workshops, while potentially very effective, commit the faculty members to time, travel, and often inflexible scheduling. However, Berkeley College, with campuses in New York and New Jersey, has designed an online faculty workshop and set of training and support tools to complement its other professional development offerings.
June 22 - Helping Online Faculty Succeed
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
Online education programs are known for their convenience, but they’ve also developed a reputation for poor student retention rates. So when someone who oversees an online education program that maintains a 92 percent completion rate speaks, people tend to listen. Such was the case at an online seminar titled High-Level Online Faculty Support for Low-Level
November 12 - Four Tips to Help Distance Educators Manage Time Spent Online
By: Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
Has email overtaken your life? Teresa Marie Kelly offers hope. As a distance education faculty member at Kaplan University, Kelly knows first hand how easy it is to fall into the email trap and offers the following four tips for to help online faculty create a better work-life balance. [...]
