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Dividing the Distance: Team Teaching Online

Dividing the Distance: Team Teaching Online . By: Christine Lustik and Jennifer Sorensen. The Course We Team Teach EDCI 2526 NT: Facilitating Online Learning.

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Dividing the Distance: Team Teaching Online

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  1. Dividing the Distance: Team Teaching Online By: Christine Lustik and Jennifer Sorensen

  2. The Course We Team TeachEDCI 2526 NT: Facilitating Online Learning This class introduces the instructor to best practices within online education; it allows the instructors to experience the challenges of being an online learner; and it focuses on up-to-date research regarding online instructor pedagogy. This class also introduces the user to the Blackboard platform and how the tools within Blackboard can be used to teach an online class. Successful completion of EDCI 2526 may allow you to be considered as a future online instructor for WWCC.

  3. Why Team Facilitate? Why are you deciding to team facilitate • To become comfortable with adjunct faculty? • To share multiple teaching perspectives? • To pair disciplines? • To provide the best teaching and learning environment for faculty and students?

  4. Quote Showing Benefits of Team Teaching Their online team teaching experience has provided their students with two different perspectives on the course materials while also giving them intimate knowledge of each others’ course design and teaching techniques. This has contributed to their professional growth at a quicker rate than if they had created and taught the course independently.” (Sullivan & Schmidt, p. 6)

  5. Why Team Facilitate? • Why don’t more faculty team teach? • Load • Insecure (Fear of not being perceived as competent in front of a peer.) • Other Issues

  6. Warning Quote “Be advised though, if done right, online co-teaching does not necessarily amount to less work than teaching a course individually.” (Wiesenberg & Massey-Hicks, P. 6)

  7. Administrative Concerns? Pay Options • Teaching • Development • Training Options • Training on-site and adjunct the same • Impact on connected party workloads? • IT/Dist Ed Support/Full-time faculty loads • How much work/development for each credit of a class?

  8. Decisions for Team Facilitators to Consider During Development • Set aside time to meet regularly • Met weekly for one semester • Decide • What content will be covered? • How will we divide content development? • How we will divide course duties? • By alternating semesters • Other examples

  9. Decisions for Team Facilitators to Consider Before the Class Starts • 5-week course: Need to decide schedule each semester? • How many times a year? • Organizational Duties • Updating resource sites • Updating dates/content pages • Updating discussion boards

  10. Decisions for Team Facilitators to Consider During Instruction “You have to make it a priority to respond to each other quickly,” Schmidt says (Sullivan and Schmidt, p. 8) Communication ..Communication .. Communication • Who responds to what emails? • Are your teaching styles similar enough so answers will be similar and consistent? • Always touching base on grades, discussion postings, etc. • Trust factor…

  11. Decisions for Team Facilitators to Consider During Instruction Collection of reflection materials • Discussion comments • Emails • Instructor created surveys • Course Evaluations

  12. Reflection Within The Course • How we work within the Course: • Discussion • Groups • Announcements • Synchronous Sessions

  13. After Course Completion…. • Meet soon after course is completed to reflect and plan changes, such as: • What’s archived/saved • What went well/what needs to be changed • How to meet? • Synchronous web conference • Email discussion • Phone discussion • Live Meetings

  14. Other Experiences/Stories to share? • We need to hear from you. • How have you experienced team teaching? • Do you have any advice?

  15. Questions…

  16. Resources Sullivan, M. & Schmidt, K. (November, 2004). Faculty collaboration: Online team teaching enriches instruction, instructors. Online Classroom. (6-8). Wiesenbert, F. & Massey-Hicks, R. (February, 2005). Lessons learned from co-teaching: a high-enrollment online course. Online Classroom. (6-8). Strohschen, G. & Heaney, T. (2000). This isn’t Kansas anymore, toto: Team teaching online. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. (87). Jossey-Bass.

  17. Contacts Christine Lustik Director of Distance Education, WWCC (307) 382-1757 clustik@wwcc.wy.edu Jennifer Sorensen Assistant Professor of English, WWCC (307) 382-1739 jsorense@wwcc.wy.edu

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