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Online Training for Online Faculty
A checklist of the best strategies for designing and delivering online courses to train online faculty.
8/8/2007
9. Be their instructor, not their colleague. For your faculty training course to be effective, especially if you are teaching it online instead of face-to-face, the faculty trainees must respect the fact that you are a "real" instructor teaching a "real" course. Posting and enforcing deadlines for activities and even giving an occasional 90 instead of 100 on an activity, shows you mean business. You'll get better compliance and better effort if they take you seriously.
10. Respect the faculty members' previous teaching experience. Whether your trainees were mandated to take your course or self-selected, they are still college faculty. Your challenge is to elicit the best things they already know about good teaching and show how they can still use that knowledge in the online environment.
Ron Thomas is the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University worldwide headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida. Among his responsibilities is the design and delivery of online training classes to serve more than 3,000 full- and part-time faculty in over 100 locations across the U.S. and overseas, including fully online degree programs.
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