So What Are the Differences When Going Online for Faculty Development?

By Dr. James May

If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.

John Dewey

Faculty Development @ Valencia

Last year we…

• certified 71 new digital professors

• offered over 350 courses to more than 1000 faculty

• offered face to face, hybrid, and online courses with approx. 70% of the courses taught online

Is Faculty Development Different?

Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learner Domains

• Cognitive: mental skills (Knowledge)

• Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas (Attitude)

• Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (Skills)

Research suggests that…

Teachers teach as they were taught, not as they were taught to teach

(Ball, 1990; Britzman, 1991; Goodlad 1982; Lortie, 1975).

Why Develop Faculty Online?

We can…

• Model the model

• Create asynchronous communities of practice

• Allow faculty to experience the “Student Experience”

• Allow faculty to develop and vet products to be used in class with students

Model the Model

Why Model the Model?

• Screen Casting

• The CASE Model

• Embedded Asynchronous Sharing

Asynchronous Communities of Practice

EAP Shared Space

The “Student Experience”

• See what doesn’t work

• See what works well

• See examples of universal design

• Understand the need for text, video, & Audio

• Understand the power of pictures

Vetting Products

Peer to Peer feedback

Idea crashing

Half baked ideas

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