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Creating Win-Win Opportunities: Online Education & Tenure Track Faculty

Creating Win-Win Opportunities: Online Education & Tenure Track Faculty. Marilyn J. Wells, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor & Coordinator, Health Education Hampton University Hampton, Virginia The 10th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks

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Creating Win-Win Opportunities: Online Education & Tenure Track Faculty

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  1. Creating Win-Win Opportunities: Online Education & Tenure Track Faculty Marilyn J. Wells, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor & Coordinator, Health Education Hampton University Hampton, Virginia The 10th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks Orlando, FL – November 14, 2004

  2. Purpose of the Presentation • Highlight one teaching faculty member’s perspective on how integrating tenure track faculty into the online education experience can create win-win opportunities for both parties, yield unexpected rewards for the program, & facilitate innovative approaches to common challenges.

  3. Presentation Objectives • List 3 emerging challenges for online education programs and tenure track faculty • Identify 5 benefits – academic, scholarly, personal, or financial–of integrating tenure track faculty into online education • Brainstorm 3 tactics for creating win-win opportunities for online education and tenure track faculty within your own setting or institution

  4. My Faculty Experience in Online Education Hampton University – 1999 to present Distance Education Religious Studies BA Program “Instructional Technology Assistance Program” (ITAP) “Provost’s Teaching Innovation Award” “Health, Culture, & Technology: Digital Diversity for Educators” Funded Projects Technology Conference “Closing the Digital Divide” Departmental Technology Task Force

  5. Emerging Challenges for Online Education Programs • Market Niche • Accreditation Standards • Student Recruitment & Retention • Qualified Faculty • Technological Support • Fiscal Responsibility

  6. Higher Education in Transition

  7. Challenges Facing Tenure Track Faculty Today • Traditional Hallmarks of Academia • Teaching, Research/Scholarship, Service • Institutional Resources • Travel Money, Computers, Mentors • Professional Fulfillment • Intellectual Challenge, Mentors, Collegiality

  8. Professors in Transition

  9. Common Goals . . . • Support institutional mission • Strive for national recognition • Are “outcome oriented” • Emphasize “back to the basics” • Seek to create “learning communities” • Generate revenues & resources

  10. The Potential Benefits . . . • New mentoring networks • Innovative pedagogical approaches • Higher level of technological competency • Expanded research opportunities • Transference to traditional programs • Financial incentives

  11. Success Stories “BlackBoard Training” Among the very first to receive training – expanded training, which enable tenure track faculty to be a “center of influence” within their respective departments

  12. Success Stories “Spirituality & Wellness” A New Pre-conference Seminar for our Healthy Choices for Minorities 2nd Annual Conference & Health Fair, Fall 2001

  13. Success Stories “Hampton University Ministers’ Conference & Choir Directors’-Organists’ Guild Workshop” Army Chaplain’s Luncheon

  14. Success Stories “Government Agency Report” Innovative Course Assignment Required all the research of a traditional term paper, presented in an eye-catching newsletter prepared on Microsoft Publisher; Transferred to other online courses & traditional classrooms

  15. Success Stories “The 10th Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks” Scholarly Presentation & Professional Development Opportunity

  16. In Reflection … “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke, “Technology and the Future” English physicist & science fiction author

  17. How can you “make magic”? Who can be your partners? What do you want to do? Why do you want to do this? When would you like to do this? Where would you like to do this?

  18. Acknowledgement Dr. Calvin Sydnor, III Director, Religious Studies Hampton University Hampton, VA 23668 Calvin.Sydnor@Hamptonu.edu

  19. For More Information Dr. Marilyn J. Wells Assistant Professor & Coordinator, Health Education Department of Health, Physical Education, & Recreation Hampton University Hampton, VA 23668 Marilyn.Wells@Hamptonu.edu Summer 2001 1st BlackBoard Training Workshop 6 months pregnant

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