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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