1. 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

2. The Technological Revolution in Higher Education It’s not the Technology: It’s the PEDAGOGY OLD:Faculty  Student NEW:Faculty  Student Student

3. 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+

4. Pedagogy and course design Continual learning (i.e. workshops) Faculty support Developing an online global community Resources Faculty Issues

5. 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)

9. Online Options Course Options –web-enhanced –web-integrated –totally online Student/Faculty Options –one mode only –combinations

10. Basic Online Training 5 weeks including designing the course Shadow past “excellent” course Work with a Mentor

11. Continual Learning Faculty Development –workshops –annual symposium –Annual Teaching in Technology Conference on-site November, April) Faculty grants for teaching related research

13. Training on Information Resources Digital resources Workshops: developing online assignments Using e-reserves Discovering cheating, plagiarism

14. 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

15. Faculty Support Assigned instructional designers (department or division) Grants Release Time Faculty Media Lab with individual training

16. 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)

18. Online Teaching of Students with Disabilities Coming in 2003: new UMUC Website

19. Training for Assessment Develop measurable outcome Formative; evaluative Feedback

21. Developing an Online, Global Learning Community Inter-university collaboration Inter-national collaboration Among Scholars

22. Resources for Faculty (1) 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 websites

23. Popular Magazines Syllabus Converge E-learning The Journal (Technological Herizons in Education) www.syllabus.com www.convergemag.com www.elearningmag.com www.thejournal.com Resources for Faculty (2)

24. US Government Projects The U.S. Army multi-million program to provide online education + laptops to army personnel US Department of Education 5 year study involving 35 institutions www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/PPI/DistEd/ www.eArmyU.com Resources for Faculty (3)