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ODL provides the learners more access to higher education with its flexible approach, wider choice of courses, qualitative instructional methods and cost effectiveness. The advent of ICT has added the e-learning aspect to ODL as well. The open and distance system has reached a phase wherein it is important to look inwards, to understand the […]
This mixed methods study explores instructor motivations for offering massive open online courses (MOOCs) as well as the instructional innovations used to enhance the MOOC design. The researchers surveyed 143 MOOC instructors worldwide and then interviewed 12 of these instructors via Zoom. They also extensively reviewed the MOOCs of the interviewees. The primary motivations for […]
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 […]
Most instructional designers will tell you their work begins with getting a foot in the door with faculty and building rapport from there. Here are three ways to make that relationship a success. Campus Technology
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This paper presents the results of a small-scale research study examining the professional practice of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) faculty, who are encouraged to network and learn, establish on-going relationships with both their fellow faculty and those in other institutions, share knowledge, experience, resources and foster good practice for continuing professional development (CPD). It considers […]
