principles for enriching the faculty development opportunities at your institution: how to add the...

Principles for Enriching the Faculty Development Opportunities at Your Institution: How to Add

the World and Expand Your Reach

Kelvin Thompson, Ed.DUniversity of Central Florida

Principles

• Harvest ideas from experienced faculty

• Establish a digital trail from f2f events

• Whittle down length of each “unit”

• Connect to more materials for follow-up

• Open-Up access via networks

• Think long term

“Produced”Requires more planning, support resources, personnel, time, etc.

More Programmatic

More Ad Hoc

“Good enough”“Small tools, loosely joined”Less polish

Production Level

Open Faculty DevelopmentFaculty Development in the Open

Closed Faculty Development

What happens in the program stays in the program

Semi-permeability(Some elements go “out”)

Complete* permeability(World comes “in”)

Openness Continuum

Adapted from Openness Continuum in http://bit.ly/thompson_eli2011

UCF Faculty Development Offerings Beyond IDL6543

Program Description

TOPR Compendium of online teaching practices

Faculty Seminars Hybrid mini-sessions. Resource rich

Singular Offerings One-offs on current topics

Multimedia Workshops

Hybrid skill-based mini-sessions with hands-on f2f or remote

Showcase Culminating event for IDL6543

TOL Community F2F and online personal learning network

TOPRThe Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository

FACULTY SEMINARS IN ONLINE TEACHING

SINGULAR OFFERINGSOne-off Faculty Development

FACULTY MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP SERIES

Spin-off from Faculty Seminars by different department

IDL6543 ONLINE FACULTY SHOWCASE

TEACHING ONLINE COMMUNITY

Recommendations

• Start where you are• Consider how to “open up” existing programs• Design new efforts with openness in mind• Decide whether you are “sharing with the

world” or “inviting the world in”

Contact

Dr. Kelvin Thompsonkelvin@ucf.edu@kthompsohttp://linkedin.com/in/drkelvinthompson