Preparing Faculty of all Technology Levels to Teach Online – Blended – Hybrid

Leah MacVie | Instructional Designermacviel@canisius.eduCanisius College, Buffalo, NYwww.canisius.edu | www.leahmacvie.com

About Leah

• Instructional Designer for Canisius College,

• Ph.D. student at Union Institute & University,

• Informal Learning and Alternative Forms of Credit,

• Involved with Mozilla Open Badges and P2PU, &

• Co-Founder of TEDxBuffalo.

www.leahmacvie.com

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

But also….

How to be part of the greater online faculty community.

Teach faculty how to:• Develop online

courses,• Teach online,• Evaluate their

online courses, and• Implement new

technologies online.

5 CHALLENGES1. 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 Development

Used Palloff and Pratt's Five Phases of Online Faculty Development

from The Excellent Online Instructorto 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.

•Easily matches activities to objectives.

Teaching Students with Softchalk

Instructors across campus use Softchalk to:

•Display lessons to their hybrid 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

Teaching Students with Softchalk

Instructors across campus use Softchalk to:

•Present lessons in their online courses

Karen Dutt-Doner’s research methods lesson, used with permission.

This has been my first experience with online learning, and I've enjoyed it so far. The lessons are very user-friendly and I'm able to navigate them with ease. All of the links within the lesson usually work and I like the variety of material presented (PowerPoint slides, YouTube videos, online articles, activities).

~Michael*

I really enjoy the set up of the classes, my only improvement to offer would be the option to make the SoftChalk presentations full screen. I just think this would allow information to stand out more and be easier to read. Thank you so much for all your hard work!

~Monica*

Students Creating with Softchalk

Students in religious studies and theology and special education are creating digital storytelling books and presentations with Softchalk.

Created by Aliyya*, used with permission.

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 faculty development plan,• Give faculty the tools:– Griff Guide, Course Review Tool, Softchalk.

• Offer regularly scheduled workshops and events:– Beginner, inter, advanced, online teaching,

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 Designermacviel@canisius.eduCanisius College, Buffalo, NYwww.canisius.edu | www.leahmacvie.com

Leah MacVie | Instructional Designermacviel@canisius.eduCanisius College, Buffalo, NYwww.canisius.edu | www.leahmacvie.com

Resources:Online Faculty Development Path and Components:http://goo.gl/t1L5Q Softchalk:www.softchalk.com

Preparing Faculty of all Technology Levels to Teach Online – Blended – Hybrid

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