Carol A. McQuigganSr. Instructional DesignerThe Faculty Center for Teaching & Instructional TechnologyPenn State Harrisburg

The Essential Attributes of Faculty Development Programs – Which ones are you missing?

15th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning

Overview

Provide a context for Penn State Harrisburg’s Faculty Center

Look at “Faculty Professional Development: Preparing to Teach Online”

Context for Penn State Harrisburg

Founded in 1966

2570 undergraduates

1370 graduate students

Degrees from associate to doctorate

185 full-time faculty

122 part-time faculty

On 218 acres

Context for the Faculty Center

Formed in 2006

2 instructional designers + 1 opening, 2 part-time staff assistants

Faculty Advisory Board

Designing online courses and preparing faculty to teach online isn’t all we do!

Multiple Avenues to Online Teaching

As faculty are:

Learning to use new technologies

Designing online courses

Preparing to teach online

Teaching online

Opportunities to rethink teaching and learning

Catalyst

Developing the model

**Extensive** lit review

Examined every faculty development model that had been awarded the Sloan-C Excellence in ALN Faculty Development

Looked for attributes that support an adult learning theory framework

SUNY’s SLN rose to the top

Adult Learning Theory – Adults:

Transformative Learning Theory

Process by which people are led to consider and question assumptions and beliefs that have previously been uncritically assimilated.

Perspectives and assumptions may be revised so as to be more open, permeable, and better justified.

(Cranton, 2009)

Individual meetings

Tell me how you came to the field of teaching (their subject) in higher ed.

What are the events and experiences in your life that have made you the teacher you are today?

Tell me about your students.

Tell me about your teaching practices.

Tell me how you feel about teaching online.

Reflection Journal Entry

Reflect on your sharing of how you became a teacher, and what it’s like being a teacher. Thinking about what you shared about your students and current teaching practices, what do you expect to change in the move to online teaching and learning?

Getting Started

Module 1: Reflection & ConceptualizationModule 2: Interaction & Collaboration

Module 3: Activities & AssessmentModule 4: Teaching & Managing

Resources

Challenges

Action research is messy!

Balance of structure & flexibility

Timeframe

Scalability

An opportunity for transformation

The only real voyage of discovery. . . consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. . .

~ Marcel Proust

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15th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning