Supporting Faculty In The Angel Virtual Classroom

Supporting Faculty in the ANGEL

Virtual Classroom

Melanie Bartlett

Assistant Director – Center for Teaching and Learning

David Rausch, PhD

Director – Center for Teaching and Learning

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Supporting The Faculty-Technology Relationship

• Advantages– Enabling Learners– Increasing Immediacy

• Challenges– Enabling Learners– Increasing Immediacy

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Instructor/Student Expectations

• Set clear expectations for turnaround time

• Establish types of feedback (acknowledgement, content, automated)

• Distinguish variety and level of support and developmental interaction

• Manage perceptions of legitimate feedback

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Learner Centered Instructors

• Learner Centered Faculty Support– Reconceptualized documentation– Peer to Peer mentoring / modeling– Focus on technologies inside and outside the

face-to-face classroom– Learning support is active, collaborative and

social– Support recognizes individual pace and

capabilities

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Faculty Support Philosophy

• Communicating our model

• Keeping in touch

• Maintaining quality standards

• Support gaps harm faculty

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Faculty as Students in the Virtual Classroom

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Technology Readiness Assessment

Technology Primer3 hours synchronous instruction

Macomb Online Instructor Training Certification (MOITC)Eight week online course

Pass

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Yes

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Macomb Online Instructor Training Certification (MOITC)

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Technology Readiness Assessment

Technology Primer3 hours synchronous instruction

Macomb Online Instructor Training Certification (MOITC)Eight week online course

orVirtual Basics-Three hours synchronous instruction or asynchronous tutorial-Three online modules

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Yes

No

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ANGEL Basics

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Technology Readiness Assessment

Technology Primer3 hours live or virtual instruction

Macomb Online Instructor Training Course (MOITC)Eight week online course

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Assessments and Assignments

Learning Object Repositories

Gradebook

Synchronous Discussion Forums

Communication

-Two and one/half hours synchronous instruction-One online module

Virtual Basics-Three hours synchronous instruction or asynchronous tutorial-Three online modules

Pass

Yes

No

Certified

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ASSESSMENT OF INSTRUCTOR READINESS

Assessment of Instructor Readiness

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What happens when faculty do not complete an exercise successfully?

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Training Formats

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Synchronous F2F

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Synchronous Virtual

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AsynchronousTutorials

Discussion Forums

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Faculty Support

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Technical Support for Faculty

• Support team– Asynchronous support– Synchronous sessions

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Other Services

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Course Design Support for Faculty

• Provide Course Review course(s)– Asynchronous support– Synchronous sessions

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Asynchronous Support

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Open Lab

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Adobe Connect Pro

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Questions?

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References

• Kubala, 1998• Collison et al., 2000• Eklund & Eklund, 1996• Newman et al., 1999; Shapley, 2000• Haggerty et al., 2001• Kassop, 2003• Rovai, 2004• Speck 1996• (Hiltz & Wellman, 1997; Markel, 2001; Sullivan, 2002). • Adam Finkelstein, adam.finkelstein@mcgill.edu• Brendan Guenther brendan@msu.edu• Brandon Blinkenberg bran@msu.edu