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Title: Strategies for Engaging Faculty in the Development and Delivery of Online Education


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Strategies for Engaging Faculty in the
Development and Delivery of Online Education
  • Jacqueline Moloney, Ed.D.
  • Dean of Continuing Studies,
  • Corporate and Distance Education and
  • UMOL Deans Council

2
  • Overview of the Field
  • Incentives That Foster Faculty Involvement
  • Models for Training and Course Migration
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Trivia

3
Why Engage the Faculty
  • Survive, Compete, Grow
  • The future is e-communication and e-commerce
  • Sloan-C Sizing the Opportunity projects 2,000,000
    in 05
  • UBS Study projects online enrollments to triple
    by 08
  • For-profits outpacing growth of non-profits
  • Revenue Generation
  • Faculty are at the core of the mission
  • Determine Curriculum and Institutional Direction
  • Help Identify New Markets/Maintain Existing ones
  • Cutting edge pedagogy

4
UMass Online Programs
  • UML Largest in UMOL/One of Largest in N E
  • UML Pioneers in 1996,
  • Access over 7,200 enrollments at UML and in 0
    14,000 enrollments at UMOL
  • Generate New Revenues for the Campuses
  • UMOL 13,000,000 annual revenue
  • Members of Sloan-C, grant award recipients
  • Success attributed to faculty involvement in all
    aspects of planning and design of the program
  • trivia

5
Address Faculty Concerns Upfront
6
Address Faculty Concerns Upfront
  • Will I have the necessary technology and support
    I need, when I need it?
  • Is this a veiled attempt to eliminate tenure or
    full-time faculty?
  • Is it worth the time to learn the technology and
    to migrate a course online?
  • What happens to my course/materials once online?
  • How will I adapt my face to face course to the
    online environment?
  • Will I lose my ability to interact with students?

7
Faculty Recruitment Oversight
  • Develop Business Plan Program Development
  • Engage Faculty Governance and Trusted Advisors
  • Identify Programs, markets, financial plan
  • Number of faculty and courses needed each year
  • Expand the Faculty Pipeline
  • Start with early adopters
  • Encourage skeptical faculty
  • Tenured faculty seeking new challenges
  • Part-time faculty with campus affiliation
  • Encourage diversity especially age (Retirees)
  • Faculty at a distance

8
Balance Extrinsic/Intrinsic Incentives
Feiman-Nemser and Floden
  • Contract/policy defines explicit conditions
    terms
  • Training Requirements
  • how much, when, for what
  • Departmental, College approval
  • Extrinsic/Monetary Incentives
  • Course Development Stipends, laptops
  • Institutional Recognition
  • Framework for workload implications
  • Weight in the promotion and tenure
  • Intellectual Property

9
Intellectual Property Guidelines
  • Mutually Beneficial In Spirit
  • Joint investment in course development
  • Stipulate faculty ownership of course materials,
    content, etc.
  • Stipulate who owns the online course
  • Parties stipulate conditions under which the
    course can be taught by another instructor
  • Agree to conditions for royalties upfront

10
Intrinsic Incentives
  • Participation in an exciting learning community
  • Learn and apply new technologies
  • Reflect on and explore new pedagogies
  • Research and publications on the study of online
    education
  • Service as mentors
  • Conference opportunities
  • Professional awards
  • Trivia/teams/150,000

11
Models for Quality Training Migration
  • In-house vs. out-sourced model
  • Quality programs phase faculty into online
    teaching
  • training migration teaching course redesign
  • Model Quality Online Teaching by Training the
    Faculty Online
  • Provides convenience and flexibility
  • Experience of learning online
  • Builds confidence and sensitivity
  • Builds online learning communities

12
Emphasize Pedagogy Technical Skills
  • Introduction to Online Teaching Strategies
  • Creating presence and interaction
  • Converting assignments
  • Using the Learning Management System
  • How to upload content
  • Empower the faculty with technical skills
  • Introducing audio and video

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Continuous Improvement
  • Faculty Feedback
  • 350 faculty Trained in Online Institute since 04
  • 97 satisfied with training
  • Student Feedback
  • 95 satisfied with technical and learning
    experience
  • Assessment for Transformation

15
Continuous Improvement through Assessment
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Resources and Contact Information
  • http//www.sloan-c.org
  • UMass Lowell Online Teaching Institute
  • Education Pathways
  • Jacqueline Moloney, Jacqueline_Moloney_at_uml.edu
  • Cathy Kendrick
  • Catherine_Kendrick_at_UML.edu
  • http//continuinged.uml.edu/online
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