Faculty Training and Support
for E-Learning
Claudine SchWeber, Ph.D.
Office of Distance Education and Lifelong Learning
cschweber@umuc.edu
www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/
Israel, February 2002
Fulbright Senior Specialist Program
The Technological Revolution in Higher Education
It’s not the Technology:
It’s the PEDAGOGY
OLD:
NEW:
Faculty  Student
Faculty  Student
Student
Pedagogy
The “Variety of structures and
activities associated with teaching and
learning…”1
S.Gilbert “A Widening Gap: The Support Service Crisis” Syllabus (August 2000) pp 18+
Faculty Issues
• Pedagogy and course design
• Continual learning (i.e. workshops)
• Faculty support
• Developing an online global community
• Resources
Pedagogy and Course Design
• Training for interaction and for teaching
• Instructor  Facilitator
• Online teaching  F2F teaching
• Increased communication channels
– Facilitates student collaboration, faculty
contacts
•UMUC: Online training workshops with a
focus (i.e. plagiarism)
Online Options
• Course Options
– web-enhanced
– web-integrated
– totally online
• Student/Faculty Options
– one mode only
– combinations
Basic Online Training
• 5 weeks including designing the course
• Shadow past “excellent” course
• Work with a Mentor
Continual Learning
• Faculty Development
– workshops
– annual symposium
– Annual Teaching in Technology Conference on-site
November, April)
• Faculty grants for teaching related research
Training on Information Resources
• Digital resources
• Workshops: developing online assignments
• Using e-reserves
• Discovering cheating, plagiarism
The Plagiarism Challenge
• Online “paper mills” (i.e. The Evil House of
Cheat)
• Testing of plagiarism detection software
• UMUC Plagiarism website
umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/links_plagiarism.html
Faculty Support
• Assigned instructional designers
(department or division)
• Grants
• Release Time
• Faculty Media Lab with individual training
Faculty Support Challenges
• Moving from pedagogical awareness of
new online environment
sustainable change (by the institution)
• Transition stages/needs 1
pedagogical responsibility
pedagogical capacity
sustainable change
1 Gilbert (2000)
Online Teaching of Students with Disabilities
Coming in 2003: new UMUC Website
Training for Assessment
• Develop measurable outcome
• Formative; evaluative
• Feedback
Developing an Online, Global Learning Community
• Inter-university collaboration
• Inter-national collaboration
• Among Scholars
Resources for Faculty (1)
websites
• www.umuc.edu/virtualteaching
– UMUC’s Teaching with Technology website; coming in 2003
Disability Access website
• www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/
– UMUC’s Center for Intellectual Property in the Digital
Environment includes a listserv
• www.sloan-c.org
– A consortium of organizations and institutions committed to
quality in Higher Education
• www.merlot.org
– A Multi-Media Educational Resource for Learning and Online
Teaching
• www.tltgroup.org
– Teaching, Learning and Technology articles, discussions,
consultations
Resources for Faculty (2)
Popular Magazines
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Syllabus
Converge
E-learning
The Journal
(Technological
Herizons in
Education)
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www.syllabus.com
www.convergemag.com
www.elearningmag.com
www.thejournal.com
Resources for Faculty (3)
US Government Projects
www.eArmyU.com
• The U.S. Army multi-million program to provide
online education + laptops to army personnel
www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/PPI/DistEd/
• US Department of Education 5 year study
involving 35 institutions