1. Creating Community Through Sustained Online Training Katie Datko Pasadena City College

2. Your Experiences
Briefly with another person(s) discuss your experience as a first time online instructor. What was it like to teach? What support did you have for course delivery?
(If you haven’t yet taught online, feel free to discuss your perception of what online teaching/course delivery will be.)
Brainstorm a list of adjectives/emotions that describe your experience.
If you haven’t yet taught online, discuss what your thoughts/emotions about online teaching are.
Feel free to post here

3. Some Ideas About Professional Learning….
…the key to greater success in professional development rests not so much in the discovery of new knowledge, but in our capacity to use deliberately and wisely the knowledge we have…
Gurskey (1995)

4. Professional Competence
Training: Craft Model
Study with a Master
(Demonstration)
Practice
Professional Competence
Wallace (1991, p. 6)

5. Training: Experiential/Reflective Model
Experience-Based Model
The trainer as facilitator
Shared experiences as training focus
Learning through reflection
Tillema & Imants (1995)
Tasks
Practice
Reflection

6. PCC Distance Education Program 2003 to Present
2013
Online Model Course Program
2011
DE Policy 3230
2010
Fully Online Courses
2003
Hybrid Courses

7. Online Model Course Program
7 High Demand/Impact Courses
PCC owns content

8. 3 Step Process to Teaching Online
Course Proposal (through Curriculum Committee)
Course Development (best practices & pedagogy)
Course Delivery (facilitation)

9. Facilitator Training Total Trainings: 10 Total Faculty Trained: 130
Hybrid/mostly online/8-10 weeks
3 Weeks Practical Training; 7 weeks Reflective Learning
Faculty Trained
2013
35 Faculty Participants
2014
72 Faculty Participants
2015
17 Faculty Participants
2016
6 Faculty Participants
Total Trainings: 10
Total Faculty Trained: 130

10. Facilitator Training Objectives
Apply principles and best practices for online course facilitation using the CANVAS Learning Management System (LMS).
Summarize the Federal, State and compliance issues that relate to online instruction.
Integrate and create appropriate, accessible, and affordable rich course content (multimedia) in the LMS.
Synthesize your experiences through ongoing reflective discussions/journals, observations and peer feedback.

11. Facilitator Training Structure
Introduction to Online Learning
Being a Student
Online
Basic LMS Training
Accessibility
Logistics
Policies & Procedures & PCC
Getting Course Up & Running
Week 1 Observation
Engaging Your Learners
Interaction: CA Title 5, Regular & Effective Contact
Weekly Community-Building Check-Ins
Online Observation + Feedback

12. Reflection Examples
Write a short discussion post describing both a positive and negative experience with group work either as an instructor or a student (or both!)
How are you feeling about teaching your course? What are some things that you have done to foster interaction in your class(es)? Specifically think of the types of Instructor-Student interactions you have done and the Student-Student interactions that have taken place in your course.
Check out this article, Facilitating Every Student in an Online Course. Choose one strategy/skill to try this week from one of the following sections of the article:
Discipline and Motivation
Synergy and the Online Learning Community
Communication Skills
Write a short discussion post describing the strategy you chose, the situation you used it in, and how it worked.

13. Feedback: Module Content

14. Feedback: Objectives

15. Additional Support CANVAS ‘course’ Resources Updates & reminders
Discussion boards
Small groups to connect to other instructors

16. Feedback: Future Topics

17. Future Plans/Goals Ongoing Support for Facilitators/Peer Mentors
Open course to entire campus (4 week course)
Create & maintain Communities of Practice
Specific workshops to meet teaching needs
Regular input from facilitators for improvement
ePortfolios
Presentation Images: Guilia Forsythe from Flickr; open source photos from Bing

18. Resources
Gurskey. “Social-Psychological and Institutional Factors.” Professional Development in Education: New Paradigms and Practices. New York: Teachers College, Print.
Tillema, Harm, and Jeroen Imants. "Training for the Professional Development of Teachers." Professional Development in Education: New Paradigms and Practices. New York: Teachers College, Print.
Wallace, Michael. Training Foreign Language Teachers: A Reflective Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Print.
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