A Blended Approach Toward an eLearning Faculty Fellowship Academy: Pitfalls, Hurdles and Successes
Presentation Teaser: This presentation provides an overview of implementing a faculty fellowship academy to improve online learning within a community where anything goes in a blended format.
Title: A Blended Approach Toward an eLearning Faculty Fellowship Academy: Pitfalls, Hurdles and Successes
Track: Faculty & Professional Development & Support
Institutional Level: Multiple
Type of Session: Information Session
Context
While analyzing a distance education program within a community college it became apparent that the college would like to expand its program offerings. To meet the demands for an increase in course offerings additional faculty
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Additionally, it was decided that a course design rubric would be incorporated into the training.
Starting fall semester 2015, the Office of Instructional Technology (OIT), with support from the college-wide Distance Education Committee (DEC), will pilot a new training program, the eLearning Faculty Fellowship Academy. The term eLearning covers fully online, hybrid/blended, and web-enabled courses. The college-wide DEC and OIT are excited about this innovative approach to professional development and encourage faculty to consider supporting this new initiative.
The purpose of the academy is two-fold: some of the fellows will be new to eLearning, i.e., faculty who have applied and had a course proposal approved for the 2015-2016 academic year. Others will be “veteran” eLearning faculty who are dedicated to significantly revising their courses. The veteran faculty will serve as informal mentors to their new-to-eLearning peers.
The main goals of the Academy are to
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Even though three hours are assigned to the face-to-face sessions there are some sessions that will be shorter and the excess time will be dedicated to one-on-one help if so desired. And, as we all know, life can get in the way of good intentions and desires; so to help, there will be similar but intensive sessions available the following Friday, from 11-12:30 PM. These intensive sessions will be open to the college community, not just the eLearning fellows. OIT and DEC encourage faculty interested in eLearning to join on these