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Issues associated with instructional management by instructors of online instruction

Issues associated with instructional management by instructors of online instruction. Elaine McRobbie. Common Themes. Building community Time management Communication Technology. Building community. Encourage student emails Office hours and phone options Find ways to bond the students

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Issues associated with instructional management by instructors of online instruction

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  1. Issues associated with instructional management by instructors of onlineinstruction Elaine McRobbie

  2. Common Themes • Building community • Time management • Communication • Technology.

  3. Building community • Encourage student emails • Office hours and phone options • Find ways to bond the students • Photographs, bios, group projects • Face-to-face orientation • Threaded discussions

  4. Time Management • Set expectations and rules for students and instructor • Use listservs or other forums • Instructor must set aside dedicated time for management issues

  5. Communication • Times and dates for synchronous activities need to be clearly announced. • Clear and detailed instructions and expectations for online discussions need to be provided. • Instructors need to model expected behaviors • be cognizant of the several forms of online talk • control talk (providing guidelines and instructions) • humor (entertaining and lightening student spirits) • acronyms (eg IMHO – in my humble opinion; BTW – by the way) • emoticons (text cues to emotional states)

  6. Technology • Know where to direct students having problems with the technology • Engage in training options • Boot camp • Face-to-face • Structured orientations

  7. Issues associated with online programs & disciplines Mike Martin

  8. Overview • Appropriateness • Faculty Readiness • Collaboration • Retention • Standards

  9. Appropriateness • Chickens & Eggs • Disciplines & Programs • Tools ass. w/ discipline & its mastery • Can www facilitate? • If so, to what extent? • In part, whole, or complement • Don’t lose sight of learning objectives

  10. Faculty Readiness • Culture & Background • Ready, retrain, or import • Resources & Approach • Publisher • Institution • Web • Professional Organizations • Grant-seeded initiatives • Homogeneity • Time & Incentives

  11. Collaboration • Collaboratory • Library • Workspace • Professional Development • Utilize existing infrastructure • Cost-efficient • models online T&L • Transformative in regards to processes • Implicit training & marketing

  12. people-to-people Communication, Groupware Services Distributed, media-rich information technology access to information access to facilities Interaction with the Physical World Digital Libraries, E-Pub Collaboratory http://www.scienceofcollaboratories.org/

  13. Retention • Retention rate discrepancies • Nature of OL students • Background of OL faculty • Nature of OL learning • Maturity • Discipline technologies • Delivery method • Generational transitions

  14. Standards • Accrediting commissions • Commitment, Best Practices • Principles, Guidelines • Content delivery • Objective mastery • By discipline? Delivery independent? • Transcript issues • Increasingly embedded, in “whole” or part

  15. Issues related to institutional instructional infrastructure Sheri Barrett

  16. Security • Certifications • Policies • Software options • Biometrics and other new trends

  17. Bandwidth • Burgeoning need is overwhelming networks • PDAs, file sharing, VOIP, rich media • Ethernet switching, or Packeteer’s traffic management software possible solution options

  18. Wireless vs. Wired • What to make available? • Security • Access Points • Appropriate policies

  19. Strategic Planning • Systematic • Goal oriented, with performance measures • Continuous • Yearly updates • Deliberate • Decide where you want to go, don’t like technology drive the train

  20. The Human Factor • Problems with Faculty motivation • How to push a boulder uphill • Training • Training • Training • Mentoring • Policy

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