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Hiring, Integrating, and Evaluating Online Faculty
If your school is offering courses or programs online, then your faculty is likely changing. Don’t let those changes alter your expectations. You can integrate remote professors into your educational culture and maintain educational quality when you know how to hire, integrate and evaluate online instructors.
video Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Tackling Online Faculty Retention and Support
Retention is a big challenge for online programs, but it’s not just a matter of student retention. Faculty retention is just as important. Because geography doesn’t dictate where online instructors can work, they can cast a wide net when looking for a job and don’t necessarily need to stay loyal to their current employer.
More on Working With Part-Time Faculty to Enhance Teaching and the Curriculum: A Top 10 List
Editor’s Note: In yesterday’s article, the authors introduced steps for overcoming some of the administrative challenges when working with part-time faculty. Here, in part two of the article, they outline strategies for overcoming some of the pedagogical challenges.
How to Screen, Train, and Keep Quality Adjuncts
Adjunct faculty make up approximately half of all instructional faculty in degree-granting institutions (National Center for Education Statistics, 2008). Some teach online and some in a traditional classroom-based setting. Some work at private colleges, others for large public universities, and still others at community colleges. Adjuncts represent a diverse group professionals with a wide variety of backgrounds, but they do have at least one thing in common: they’re under increased scrutiny to demonstrate their effectiveness.
Managing the Adjunct Pool for Consistent Learning Outcomes
The use of adjuncts is on the rise and will continue to grow as colleges deal with economic challenges by hiring fewer full-time, tenure-track professors. This seminar will outline a system for successfully supporting a large pool of adjuncts, including evaluation, development and assignment.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Best Practices for Keeping Online Adjuncts Engaged
The number of adjunct faculty teaching at colleges and universities continues to rise dramatically. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 44 percent of faculty and instructional staff at all institutions in fall 2003 were part-time employees compared with 33 percent in 1987, the first year of data collection.
Engagement Strategies for Online Adjuncts
The use of adjuncts has enabled distance education programs to grow, but it does present challenges in terms of engagement, communication and community. Make sure your online adjuncts have the support and guidance they need to contribute to your institution’s success.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Faculty Development in Distance Education: Issues, Trends and Tips
Of the many lessons learned from the early years of distance education one of the most persistent to remain, and thankfully so, is the fact that you cannot simply pluck an instructor out of the classroom, plug him into an online course, and expect him to be effective in this new and challenging medium.
Best Practices for Training and Retaining Online Adjunct Faculty
As colleges and universities continue to expand their online course offerings, increasingly they’re turning to adjuncts to teach the courses. This report features proven strategies for ensuring your distance education faculty have the necessary training and support to succeed.
Training and Supporting Online Adjuncts: Practical Ideas
As the number of online courses continues to grow at a steady pace, quality online adjuncts are in short supply. Even if you’re lucky enough to find them, and get them properly trained to deliver what your institution requires, you’re still not out of the woods. Defections are common as online adjuncts report feeling disconnected from the campus community they serve, and there’s always competition from others schools who may offer a better pay rate.
Dr. Kimberly Hardy serves as the dean of Instruction and Student Success for the Open Campus of Florida Community College at Jacksonville. In addition to teaching online courses in education and technology, Dr. Hardy works with distance learning, military, and accelerated programs. She has an extensive background in distance education and technology, and previously worked as a consultant and senior analyst for a national higher education consulting firm, as well as for the statewide Florida Distance Learning Consortium. Dr. Hardy earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education with a specialty in Instructional Systems from Florida State University, a Master of Arts degree in Student Affairs Administration from Michigan State University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from Boston College.