Training and Development for Fully Online Faculty
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Training and Support for Fully Online Faculty
Elizabeth (Ferris) MetzgerInstructional TechnologistFlorida International University Online
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Agenda
• About FIU Online
• FIU Online’s Structure
• Master Template and Syllabus
• Faculty Training and Development
• What’s Next
• Questions
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• Located in Miami, FL
• FIU has 50,000 students, 61% Hispanic
• Over 500 fully online courses a semester, 13 undergrad fully online programs, 17 graduate programs*, 5 MOOCs, professional certificates and continuing education programs.
• FIU has 50,000 students, over half of our students took an online course in 2013.
• More than 300 faculty teaching a fully online course.
• Learn 9 user since 2010 with full migration in 2011. Currently on SP13.
• Quality Matters since 2011- 200 courses have QM certification
• 14 Blackboard Exemplary Course Awards, 8 awarded in 2014
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Instructors are Not Course Builders
Dedicated instructional designers allows professors to be SME’s and facilitators of learning, not course builders and technology specialists.
– Instructional Designers/ Course Developers
– Support Services
– Teaching & Learning team*
– Multimedia Team
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Build Consistency and Model Best Practices
• Master template and syllabus– applied to all courses through backend
processes– branding– consistency (in course delivery and
navigation)– auditing – overall models good teaching practices
• 11 QM standards are automatically covered and 6 more are modeled.
• Students resources and tool tutorials are created for instructors
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Master Template
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Faculty Development
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Faculty Training
Quality Matters• Applying the QM
Rubric
• Certified Peer Reviewer
IOT• Introduction to
Online Training
Blackboard• Fundamentals
• What’s New
• Power Hours
• Geared toward fully online faculty with access to instructional designers.
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Blackboard
Fundamentals• 4 webinar series
(2 hrs each) offered one time before each semester
• Basics
• Learning Tools
• Assessments
• Evaluation
What’s New• 2 hours offered
every other month
• Covers tools that have been added and updates to our environment in the last year.
Power Hours• One hour webinar
or F2F.
• Based on faculty need- assessed through survey
• Making Your Lectures Come Alive
• ADA in Online
• ProctorU
• Managing Groups
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Other Resources
Faculty Mentors*
Website*
Showcase CourseOne on One training
Newsletter*
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What’s next
1.0 Teach Online
2.0Experience Online
• Train Blackboard
• Train Quality Matters
• How to teach online
• Single user
• Course based
• Focus on quality course design
• Focus more on pedagogy over technology
• Certification
• Program level
• Curriculum design
• Focus on “gold” standards not just design
• Just in time training.
• Based on feedback from faculty
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Thank you!!
Elizabeth (Ferris) MetzgerInstructional Technologist
FIU Online
[email protected]@bizmetzger
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