Roped Together A Blended Approach to Faculty Development

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Roped TogetherA Blended Approach to Faculty
Development

• Texas Christian University
• William H. Koehler Center for Teaching Excellence
• Romana Hughes
• Arrion Howard
  

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Decision for Training

• Audit of web-enhanced and distance courses
• Need for more training
• Promote student engagement
• New approach to teaching
• Faculty focus groups
• Evaluation feedback
• Growth of eLearning program

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Audit of courses

• CMS tools not fully utilized
• Faculty did not have to design courses
• Lack of information regarding
• Student engagement
• Course tools to use
• How to manage your course

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Faculty Focus Groups

• Distance learning faculty met with eLearning
  staff to discuss audit of courses.
• Determined that training and understanding of the
  course tools were lacking
• Faculty were interested in designing their
  courses for improvement

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Evaluation Results

• Numerous evaluations were sent to faculty
  for feedback on training needs. Below are the
  issues reported and addressed
• Conflict of work schedule and time to train
• Miss information on the amount of work upfront
  for course design
• Faculty teaching online had the option to have
  eCollege setup their course by submitting the
  content to eCollege. Most faculty did not know
  or use any other tools that were not originally
  setup.

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New Training Objectives

• To increase faculty knowledge of teaching tools
  available
• To promote student engagement
• To promote peer-to-peer conversations on teaching
• To increase faculty knowledge on using tools to
  improve teaching and learning

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Challenges for eLearning

• Time/Date
• Location of training
• Topics
• Follow-up
• Technology needs
• More Staff

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Boot Camp

• Three day faculty hands-on training (9 4)
• Experience various technology tools as a student
• Maximum of 8 faculty
• Faculty mentors
• How to use technology tools
• How to teach using technology tools

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Results

• Growth of eCollege course shells
• Increase number of boot camps offered each year
• Promoted more conversations on teaching with
  technology
• Promoted the discussion, writing and approval of
  Standards and Procedures for eCollege courses
  document
• Initiated more specialized workshops for more
  specific tools
• Dreamweaver, Frontpage, HTML using MS Word
• Photoshop
• Teaching with PowerPoint
• Grade book solutions (Excel, Easy grade Pro,
  eCollege)
• CPS classroom solutions

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Boot Camp graduates and their success
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Growth
For Summer and Fall comparison information
visithttp//www.elearning.tcu.edu/resources/cours
efacultycomparison.htm
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Contact Information

• Romana (Romy) Hughes
• R.hughes_at_tcu.edu
• Arrion Howard
• A.howard_at_tcu.edu