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Faculty Training and Support for E-Learning

Faculty Training and Support for E-Learning. Claudine SchWeber, Ph.D. Office of Distance Education and Lifelong Learning cschweber@umuc.edu www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/. Israel, February 2002 Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. The Technological Revolution in Higher Education.

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Faculty Training and Support for E-Learning

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  1. Faculty Training and Support for E-Learning Claudine SchWeber, Ph.D. Office of Distance Education and Lifelong Learning cschweber@umuc.edu www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/ Israel, February 2002 Fulbright Senior Specialist Program

  2. The Technological Revolution in Higher Education It’s not the Technology: It’s the PEDAGOGY OLD: Faculty  Student NEW: Faculty  Student Student

  3. Pedagogy The “Variety of structures and activities associated with teaching and learning…”1 S.Gilbert “A Widening Gap: The Support Service Crisis” Syllabus (August 2000) pp 18+

  4. Faculty Issues • Pedagogy and course design • Continual learning (i.e. workshops) • Faculty support • Developing an online global community • Resources

  5. Pedagogy and Course Design • Training for interaction and for teaching • Instructor  Facilitator • Online teaching  F2F teaching • Increased communication channels • Facilitates student collaboration, faculty contacts • UMUC: Online training workshops with a focus (i.e. plagiarism)

  6. Online Options • Course Options • web-enhanced • web-integrated • totally online • Student/Faculty Options • one mode only • combinations

  7. Basic Online Training • 5 weeks including designing the course • Shadow past “excellent” course • Work with a Mentor

  8. Continual Learning • Faculty Development • workshops • annual symposium • Annual Teaching in Technology Conference on-site November, April) • Faculty grants for teaching related research

  9. Training on Information Resources • Digital resources • Workshops: developing online assignments • Using e-reserves • Discovering cheating, plagiarism

  10. The Plagiarism Challenge • Online “paper mills” (i.e. The Evil House of Cheat) • Testing of plagiarism detection software • UMUC Plagiarism website umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/links_plagiarism.html

  11. Faculty Support • Assigned instructional designers (department or division) • Grants • Release Time • Faculty Media Lab with individual training

  12. Faculty Support Challenges • Moving from pedagogical awareness of new online environment sustainable change (by the institution) • Transition stages/needs 1 pedagogical responsibility pedagogical capacity sustainable change 1 Gilbert (2000)

  13. Online Teaching of Students with Disabilities Coming in 2003: new UMUC Website

  14. Training for Assessment • Develop measurable outcome • Formative; evaluative • Feedback

  15. Developing an Online, Global Learning Community • Inter-university collaboration • Inter-national collaboration • Among Scholars

  16. Resources for Faculty (1) websites • www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching • UMUC’s Teaching with Technology website; coming in 2003 Disability Access website • www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/ • UMUC’s Center for Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment includes a listserv • www.sloan-c.org • A consortium of organizations and institutions committed to quality in Higher Education • www.merlot.org • A Multi-Media Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching • www.tltgroup.org • Teaching, Learning and Technology articles, discussions, consultations

  17. Syllabus Converge E-learning The Journal (Technological Herizons in Education) www.syllabus.com www.convergemag.com www.elearningmag.com www.thejournal.com Resources for Faculty (2) Popular Magazines

  18. Resources for Faculty (3) US Government Projects www.eArmyU.com • The U.S. Army multi-million program to provide online education + laptops to army personnel • US Department of Education 5 year study involving 35 institutions www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/PPI/DistEd/

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