Vendor session at #ITC12 by Barry Dahl of Excellence in e-Education

1. Five Effective Practices for
Professional Development
Pick One
Barry Dahl
Excellence in e-Education

2. XLENTS.com

3. BarryDahl.com

4. “Best” Practices?

5. “Best” Practices?

6. Effective Practices
• Or… Promising Practices
• Or… Practices that don’t
totally suck
• Or… Practices that don’t
totally suck out loud!

7. Effective Practices for PD
• Professional Development for
–Online faculty
–Online administrators
–Instructional designers and
technologists

8. How would this change for online?

9. Can we please move on?

10. #1
For Administrators

11. CCOBLA.org

12. CCOBLA.org Community

13. What is CCOBLA?
Sharing Collaboration
Focused

14. 1st CCOBLA Conference
• Not a traditional conference –
very hands on and interactive
• 2 days w/small group (25-50)
Topic: e-Learning Quality

15. #2
For Everyone

16. Conference Comes to You

17. CCTY – Possible Presenters

18. Possible Topics
• e-Learning - for beginners to advanced
• Web 2.0 uses in education
• e-Learning Quality
• Digital Storytelling (very hands-on)
• EdTech - wide range of topics
• Roll your own: we'll customize for you

19. Fully Customizable
• One-day, two days, or three - you decide,
and we make it happen for you
• One, two, or three featured presenters
• Fully-immersive, hands-on learning, or
traditional conference experience
• Breakouts, meals, and materials arranged
• You pay one fee - no surprises, no extras

20. TaLDA- Muskegon, MI
http://bit.ly/TaLDA2012

21. End result of CCTY
• In a nutshell…
• You provide the facility and
the attendees
• We do all the work
•Learning ensues

22. #3
For Faculty

23. Accessibility Training
Particularly for Online Faculty

24. Accessibility Training
But your faculty probably
don’t need that, right?

25. No big deal?

26. Are you sure?

27. Access eLearning

28. GeoTech GRADE Project

29. GRADE Fact Sheets

30. Suggested Steps
1. Create an accessibility “course” in
your LMS.
2. Create 8-10 question quiz on each of
the Access eLearning modules (10).
3. REQUIRE your online faculty to
complete modules 1 & 2, plus choose
1 or 2 of the additional modules.

31. WebAIM, another good option

32. #4
For Everyone

33. Webinars?
Yes, they are a dime a dozen

34. Customized Webinars
• For the price of one or
two seats in many other
webinars, get:
– the topic of your
choice
– the date and time of
your choice
– access for your
entire college
– Unlimited use of the
recorded archive

35. Example Webinar #1

36. Example Webinar #2

37. Example Webinar #3

38. #5
For Faculty

39. Peer Review
Faculty-Driven & Voluntary

40. LSC Blog Site

41. #6
For Faculty

42. External
Course Review
One-on-One Coaching

43. Do it Your Way
• Use your own course design rubric, or
mine, or something else.
• Pay one fee to have external reviewer
work one-on-one with your instructor
to improve the course design quality.
• Pay only for those courses that have an
identified need to improvement.

44. #7
For Everyone

45. Expectations
Great Learning Tool

46. You Already Have Expectations
• The questions are …
– How clearly have they been
communicated?
– How easy are they for the
following to find?
• Students?
• Faculty?
• Staff and Administration?

47. Have you clearly defined the
following items?
• What the college expects from online
students.
• What online students should expect from the
college.
• What the college expects from online faculty
members.
• What the online faculty should expect from
the college (administration).

48. Setting Expectations
• Create a task force – cross-functional
• Provide list of topics for discussion
• Reserve right to approve final wording

49. Example #1 – for faculty
• Online Office Hours
• Faculty teaching online are expected to
maintain office hours for online (distance)
students:
• Faculty who teach completely online are
expected to post information about their
available weekly hours within the online
course shell, including information to inform
the students of the various modes in which the
instructor is available to students who need to
contact the instructor from a distance.

50. Example #1 – for faculty
• Online Office Hours
• Modes of communication can include,
but are not limited, the following: face-
to-face on campus, telephone, email,
live chat room, instant messaging,
webcast or webinar room, Skype or
similar Internet calling service, etc.

51. Example #2 – for faculty
• Class Size Maximums
• Maximum class enrollments are not
dependent upon the delivery method
employed.
• Class size maximums are established
through the college’s curriculum
approval process and per the faculty
collective bargaining agreement.

52. Example #1 – for students
• Online Course “Attendance”
• The college expects online students to
attend courses on a regular basis. In
the online learning system,
“attendance” is determined by student
engagement with the classroom tools,
with other students, and with the
instructor.

53. Example #1 – for students
• Online Course “Attendance”
• Students are expected to be aware of the
Failure for Non-Attendance policy and
how it applies to online courses.
• For online courses, students will be
assigned an FN if they do not
demonstrate attendance by completing
scheduled tasks or communicating with
the instructor for 14 consecutive
calendar days.

54. Student expectations
• College expectations: • Student expectations:
– First week of class – Course syllabi
– Attendance – Course length
– Test proctoring
– Internet access
– Evaluation & oversight
– Textbooks & materials
– Feedback/response
– College communications times
– Policies & Conduct Code – Textbook availability
– Academic Honesty – Interaction
– Netiquette (civility) – Time flexibility
– Computer skills – Calendar due dates
– Resolving tech issues – Academic support
– Course evaluations – Technical support

55. Faculty expectations
• College expectations • Faculty expectations
– Course design – Course offerings
– Teaching loads – Program offerings
– Interaction w/students – Evaluation/oversight
– Online office hours – New online faculty
– Feedback/response – Feedback/response
– Final exams – Technology support
– Proctored exams – Off-campus faculty
– Due dates/times – Professional develop
– Sick/Personal leave – I.P. rights/claims

56. Five Effective Practices for
Professional Development
- Pick One
Barry Dahl
Excellence in e-Education