The document provides guidance for faculty on distance education. It discusses topics like feedback, instructional strategies, professionalism, and technology. It emphasizes making learning the central focus, knowing your learners, and using technology to facilitate learning. It provides tips for introductions, delivering timely feedback, using discussion boards, chat rooms, and groups, maintaining professionalism online, and being available during virtual office hours. The overall message is that online learning requires preparing instructors to engage and support learners in a virtual environment.

1. GUIDE FOR FACULTY
DISTANCE EDUCATION
Marylloyd Claytor
Online Learning Guide for Instructors

2. Topics
 Introduction
 Feedback
 Instructional Strategies
 Professionalism
 Technology
 Office Hours

3. Instructor Information
Faculty Name Research
Area/Course
Phone Organization Email
Marylloyd Claytor Learning Styles and
Multiple Intelligences
Business of the Arts
412.216.2616 researchconsultingrp@verizon.
net
Elizabeth Claytor Self Regulated
Learning
412.216.2616 researchconsultingrp@verizon.
net
Mary Williams Images and History of
the Graphic Novel
412.216.2616 researchconsultingrp@verizon.
net

4. Introduction/Orientation
 Introduction/Orientation
 Make the learning the center of the
online environment
 Know your learners
 Facilitate learning with technology in
the background

5. Introduction
 Introduce yourself
 Email Introduction
 Introduction to the RCG Research
Consulting Group website, and Ning
 brief professional biography
 include a personal human interest
item

6. Feedback
 Provides timely feedback
 Posts meaningful comments
 Offers corrective action early in the
course
 Personalizes the course
 Creates empathy with the learner
 Avoids isolation within the online
environment

7. Feedback
 As an instructor are you ready to
deliver timely feedback?
 Provide the email address
 Decide what is your turnaround time
with email response
 Will you offer an additional email
address in addition to the company
email address?

8. Feedback
 Feedback on coursework
 Seek positive elements in the work for
the learner to build on
 Make constructive comments
 Offer reasoned corrective action

9. Instructional Strategies
 Discussion board
 Threaded discussion
 Chat room
 Chat groups

10. Instructional Strategies
 Discussion Board
 Learners can post responses to a
prompt provided by you the instructor
 Form the prompts using behavioral
objectives
 Provides the learner with deep
learning experiences
 Responses can be in a synchronous
timeframe

11. Instructional Strategies
 Threaded Discussion
 Within the discussion board, a
discussion may occur creating a sub
forum or a new discussion point
 You as instructor can control the
direction of the discussion with your
interaction with the learners

12. Instructional Strategies
 Chat room
 The learners can meet in an
asynchronous timeframe and discuss
the material and prompts you the
instructor have provided
 You as the instructor can monitor the
chat in real time
 Print a hard copy of the chat for careful
review and record
 Review the chat by reading the record
online and saving a copy on your
computer system

13. Instructional Strategies
 Chat Group
 Learners can meet as a group to
discuss course material
 You as the instructor can create the
groups ahead of time
 The learners can have the materials and
prompt ahead of time to prepare for the
chat
 Learners can contact each other to set
chat times creating more learner
interaction

14. Professionalism
 Expect all learners to address each
other professionally
 Emphasize that the names and
contact information of any private
persons should not be stated in
public forums of the course
 Remind learners to stay on the
course material and not to delve
into personal opinion

15. Professionalism
 Remind learners the group is
depending on them
 All learners have a responsibility to
prepare, contact, discuss material
within the timeframe required within
the course
 Everyone is depending on the other
in our online community

16. Technology
 Our technology systems are
 Ning
 As an instructor, visit the website to take
the tutorial
 invite RCG and let us know how it is
going
 set up a practice Ning account and give it
a try
 Try email
 Try invitations
 Try a test forum

17. Technology
 Moodle Tutorial
 Sign in and participate in the
instructor tutorial
 Sign in and participate in the
learner tutorial
 Check with RCG Research
Consulting Group to discuss your
experience

18. Office Hours
 The brick and mortar office turns
into the virtual office
Your office includes
 email
 parking lot for questions on the
discussion board or asynchronous
forum
 decide your response time and
notify learners

19. Conclusion
 This is just the beginning of our journey in
online learning together.
 We want to begin in a positive manner
 Ask any questions you may have, revisit this
information, make notes
 Let us build on our learning together as
professional educators