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Teaching in Graduate Distance Education: Perspectives on Evaluating Faculty Engagement Strategies.

To mitigate the effects of transactional distance, it is incumbent upon online instructors to intentionally and thoughtfully incorporate and implement strategies that will create a successful learning environment, keep learners motivated, and provide a rewarding learning experience where learners feel supported, valued and connected. The authors, both of whom are long-standing faculty coaches and instructors […]

Empowering academics to be adaptive with eLearning technologies: An exploratory case study

This paper describes an exploratory case study investigating the capacity of a multidisciplinary approach to academic development, to empower adaptive responses to ongoing technological change impacting on teaching practice. A quasi-experimental design with an intervention group (n = 22) and a comparative control group (n = 7) was adopted. Pre and post online questionnaires were […]

Mindful Online Teaching and Learning: A Conversation with Tiffany Guske

At last year’s Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, Tiffany Guske, a coach, speaker, and expert in personal growth techniques, provided an unexpected introduction at the first general session. She led an excited and restless ballroom of nearly 800 attendees in a mindfulness exercise. The group began by taking three slow full deep […]

Award-Winning Faculty Online Teaching Practices: Roles and Competencies

Given the explosive growth of online learning in institutions of higher education, we are in dire need of guidelines for instructing new and continuing online instructors on how best to teach in online spaces. The purpose of this study was to identify the roles of the online instructor and categorize critical competencies for online teaching […]

Download Report: ENGAGEMENT AND DISCOURSE OF EDUCATORS THROUGH ONLINE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES

Professional learning community (PLC) is a promising strategy for effective professional development because it provides opportunities featuring collaboration, job-embedded contexts, reflection and feedback on practice, and sustained duration of learning. Yet, there are temporal and geographic barriers to designing and implementing a PLC, such as finding shared meeting time and connecting educators across different school/district […]

Student Questions: A Path to Engagement and Social Presence in the Online Classroom

Within the vast search for ways to enhance the online classroom learning environment and to engage students fully, researchers often turn to discussions concerning instructor-student interactions that take place daily in the online classroom. Although students interact with other students and with the content, it is the student-instructor interaction and connection that appears to support […]

Designing Online Curriculum: Program Revisions and Knowledge Exchange

In this article, I focus on the importance of knowledge exchange and knowledge communities to create an online curriculum that moves from individual course design to shared curriculum design. I draw from current discussions on communities of practice, agoras, and knowledge societies, expanding on the notion that knowledge, in order to benefit society, has to […]

Survey: Faculty Confident in Their Own Tech Skills, but Say Student Skills Lag

Nearly all faculty in a recent survey believe they have adequate skills (or better) to get the job done when it comes to teaching with technology. And a full 77 percent said they are “absolutely confident” or “very confident” with tech use. These findings come out of Campus Technology‘s 2018 Teaching with Technology Survey, which […]

Download Report: ONLINE LEARNING AT PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES Recruiting, Orienting, and Supporting Online Faculty

The number of college students enrolling in online programs will continue to grow in 2019, according to Eduventures.1 As a result, it’s critical for faculty members to master the unique skills required to teach and engage with students online. Learning House, a Wiley brand, partnered with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) […]

Helping Students Develop Competencies, Teachers Hone Their Own

In competency-based formats, instructors adjust to interacting regularly with students, directing students toward clear learning outcomes and other departures from their traditional practices. Many instructors begin the course-development process by asking themselves what they want students to have learned when the semester ends. Nina Morel, dean and professor of professional studies at Lipscomb University in […]

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