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Presented at the 2009 Sloan-C Conference
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Carol A. McQuigganSr. Instructional DesignerThe Faculty Center for Teaching & Instructional TechnologyPenn State Harrisburg
The Essential Attributes of Faculty Development Programs – Which ones are you missing?
15th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning
Overview
Provide a context for Penn State Harrisburg’s Faculty Center
Look at “Faculty Professional Development: Preparing to Teach Online”
Context for Penn State Harrisburg
Founded in 1966
2570 undergraduates
1370 graduate students
Degrees from associate to doctorate
185 full-time faculty
122 part-time faculty
On 218 acres
Context for the Faculty Center
Formed in 2006
2 instructional designers + 1 opening, 2 part-time staff assistants
Faculty Advisory Board
Designing online courses and preparing faculty to teach online isn’t all we do!
Multiple Avenues to Online Teaching
As faculty are:
Learning to use new technologies
Designing online courses
Preparing to teach online
Teaching online
Opportunities to rethink teaching and learning
Catalyst
Developing the model
**Extensive** lit review
Examined every faculty development model that had been awarded the Sloan-C Excellence in ALN Faculty Development
Looked for attributes that support an adult learning theory framework
SUNY’s SLN rose to the top
Adult Learning Theory – Adults:
Transformative Learning Theory
Process by which people are led to consider and question assumptions and beliefs that have previously been uncritically assimilated.
Perspectives and assumptions may be revised so as to be more open, permeable, and better justified.
(Cranton, 2009)
Individual meetings
Tell me how you came to the field of teaching (their subject) in higher ed.
What are the events and experiences in your life that have made you the teacher you are today?
Tell me about your students.
Tell me about your teaching practices.
Tell me how you feel about teaching online.
Reflection Journal Entry
Reflect on your sharing of how you became a teacher, and what it’s like being a teacher. Thinking about what you shared about your students and current teaching practices, what do you expect to change in the move to online teaching and learning?
Getting Started
Module 1: Reflection & ConceptualizationModule 2: Interaction & Collaboration
Module 3: Activities & AssessmentModule 4: Teaching & Managing
Resources
Challenges
Action research is messy!
Balance of structure & flexibility
Timeframe
Scalability
An opportunity for transformation
The only real voyage of discovery. . . consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. . .
~ Marcel Proust
What are your questions?
Connect with me:
cam240@psu.edu
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15th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning
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