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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
No
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
Pass
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, [email protected]• Brendan Guenther [email protected]• Brandon Blinkenberg [email protected]
