Posts Tagged ‘tips for online faculty’
January 28 - Instructor or Professor, It’s Not Your Title but What You Do That’s Important
By: Errol Craig Sull in Online Education
In a recent conversation, an online teaching colleague complained that her school had wrongly listed her as “adjunct instructor,” rather than “adjunct professor,” in its faculty roster. “That term ‘professor’—it means so much more than merely being an instructor,” she complained. Au contraire, I countered: ultimately, titles—and one’s accomplishments—count for little throughout any online course one teaches and never equate to long-term respect.
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.
September 30 - Reaching Online Students with Learning Disabilities
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
Students with disabilities are drawn to online courses for many of the same reasons as everyone else, but it’s often the anonymity that makes learning online particularly attractive to someone who’s spent his or her life trying to mask a disability. For online instructors, this can present new issues. After all, it’s hard enough distinguishing
July 30 - Online Instructor Success: What’s It Take?
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Did you know that there are currently more than 100 specific competencies that have been determined to be instrumental for online teaching success. If distance education is a critical part of your school’s future or your personal career path, this is one seminar you don’t want to miss.
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. [...]
