Preparing Faculty to Teach Online: Recommendations for Developing Self-Paced Training
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As the popularity of online education increases and institutions seek to grow their online offerings to meet student demand, more faculty need to be trained to teach online.Campus offices such as Faculty Development centers are often tasked with training faculty for teaching online, many of whom my be adjuncts who cannot attend in-person training or commit to a specific timeframe for participation.In this paper, a flexible and customizable self-paced training model for preparing faculty to teach online is described and suggestions shared for institutions seeking to offer self-paced online professional development training opportunities for faculty.
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Self-paced online courses provide the flexibility to match faculty members' variable schedules and provide instruction accommodating a range of teaching styles and levels of technology expertise.
“Self-paced online courses provide the flexibility to match faculty members' variable schedules and provide the instruction accommodating a range of teaching styles and levels of technology expertise (Rhode & Krishnamurthi, 2016).”
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Once developed, the implementation of faculty development for online courses is frequently scalable.
“However, once developed, the implementation is frequently scalable (Rhode & Krishnamurthi, 2016).”
From Students' Perceptions of Quality Across Four Course Development Models (2018) · cites this paper as Rhode & Krishnamurthi, 2016
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- Authors
- the Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center at Northern Illinois University, D., Rhode, J., Krishnamurthi, M., & the Office of the Provost and Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Northern Illinois University, D.
- Affiliations
- Northern Illinois University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rhode, Jason
- ORCID
- Rhode, Jason
- Venue
- International Journal of Information and Education Technology
- Publisher
- EJournal Publishing
- Published
- 2016
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 376-382
- ISSN
- 2010-3689 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2055461253
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 8.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Information and Education Technology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Northern Illinois University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Online and Blended Learning
- Social Sciences › Education › Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Educational Technology and E-Learning
- Keywords
- online learning, faculty development, self-paced training, online professional development, adjunct faculty, faculty training
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