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Growing Online:Developing a Faculty Development Plan with the Help of Softchalk
Leah MacVie | Instructional [email protected] College, Buffalo, NYwww.canisius.edu
About Leah
Instructional Designer for Canisius College,
Ph.D. student at Union Institute and University,
Informal Learning and Alternative Forms of Credit,
Involved with Mozilla Open Badges and P2PU, &
Co-Founder of TEDxBuffalo.
About Canisius
A medium-sized, Catholic and Jesuit university in urban Buffalo, NY that offers transformative undergraduate, graduate and professional programs through on-ground and online delivery.
About Canisius@Online
Canisius has been online for 8 years: 8 online programs, 4 online
certifications, 3 hybrid programs,
and 175 online
courses/semester.
Responding to Growth
Teach faculty how to:•Develop online courses,•Teach online,•Evaluate their online courses, and•Implement new technologies online.
But also….How to be part of the greater online faculty community.
5 Challenges
1.Resistance from faculty against formal training,
2.Faculty unfamiliar with online delivery format,
3.Accommodating different levels of expertise,
4.Wide variety of online courses and programs,
5.Translating the Jesuit value of teaching to the “whole person” to the online environment.
What We Created
1. Online Faculty Development Path,2. Readiness for Teaching Online Survey, 3. 3 core workshops, 4. Mission and Identity lessons, 5. LMS and technology workshops,6. Online Course Review Tool, 7. Griff Guide to Teaching Online, 8. Online learning communities, and9. Professional development
opportunities.
The Online Faculty Development Plan
Five Phases of Online Faculty
Used Palloff and Pratt's Five Phases of Online Faculty
Development from The Excellent Online Instructor
to guide the professional development offerings:
1.Visitor2.Novice3.Apprentice4.Insider5.Master
Readiness for Online Teaching Survey
3 Core Workshops
1. Blended/Hybrid Course Development Workshop
2. Online Course Development Workshop
3. Advanced Technologies in the Online Environment
Structure of the Workshops Completely virtual:
Introductory webinar, One-on-one meetings
with the ID, and Synchronous sessions
with the group.Good example of the student perspective,Demonstrates appropriate use of technology, andForms a relationship for future consultations.
Mission and Identity Lessons
Self-paced lessons,
Each page will contain: A video, A script, A video quiz, Resources, & Reflection
questions.
Online Course Review Tool
Griff Guide to Teaching Online
Professional Development Opportunities
Teaching Teachers with Softchalk
•Workshop lessons are created using Softchalk.
•Consistent layout and branded lessons.
•Save digital ‘real-estate’ with compact lessons.
•Models good lesson building and ada/udl accommodations.
•Easily matches activities to objectives.
Teaching Students with Softchalk
Instructors across campus use Softchalk to:
•Display lessons to their hybrid and online courses,
•Present content to their face-to-face courses.
Rosanne Hartman’s leadership lesson, used with permission.
Father Pat Lynch’s nukes and the church lesson, used with permission.
I find Softchalk a much easier presentation platform to use than PowerPoint. ~Father Path Lynch
Students Creating with Softchalk
Students in religious studies and theology and special education are creating digital storytelling books and presentations with Softchalk.
Downfall
This plan is labor intensive on one individual.
Benefits
Multiple instructors trained and form a community of learners.
Path and tools are flexible.
Jesuit Mission and Identity is seeped in resources and training.
Thoughts About the Future
1. Workshops continuously evolve with new technologies.
2. Office of Online Learning to service both online faculty and online students.
3. Online learning to service new programs and existing program growth,
4. Online course development model, &5. “What is online teaching” info session.
Take-Aways
Key points: Create an online development plan, Give faculty the tools:
Griff Guide, Course Review Tool, mission lessons,
Offer regularly scheduled workshops and events: Beginner, inter, advanced, online,
technology, online and f2f.
Get your Hands on the Goods
Online Faculty Development Path
and Components:http://goo.gl/t1L5Q
Softchalk:www.softchalk.com
Questions or comments?
Leah MacVie | Instructional [email protected] College, Buffalo, NYwww.canisius.edu
Leah MacVie | Instructional [email protected] College, Buffalo, NYwww.canisius.edu
Resources:Online Faculty Development Path and Components:http://goo.gl/t1L5Q Softchalk:www.softchalk.com
Growing Online:Developing a Faculty Development Plan with the Help of Softchalk
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