Virtual Faculty TrainingTools for Growth and Collaboration

Jean Marrapodi & Jason Kramer

New England College of Business

NECB eLearningImplementing Best in Class Instructional Design

Session Outcome

Explain |Leverage

Preparation

Synchronous Sound Salutations

• Take out any device that has an internet connection and a speaker.

• Turn your speaker up. If it is a cellphone, turn speaker on and turn up.

ActivityWhen I say “GO!” the timer will start and you should perform the

following:

• Search on YouTube for the song I will provide. DO NOT play the song

until timer reaches 0:00

• Play song when timer reaches 0:00

Takeaways

Synchronous Sound Salutations

• 1 – Directions may need to be repeated

• 2 – Multitasking

• 3 – Some didn’t know how to make it stop

• 4 – Using the technology??

• 5 – No synchronicity – not synced

• 6 – Technology/User/Trainer issues

• 7 – Many options – Which to use?

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We make pigs fly!

Naomi

Jean

Jason

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To create courses so good that students talk about them outside of class:

– bringing new ideas to the workplace

– excited about what they are learning

– eager to discover more

Monthly faculty meetings were conference calls sharing statistics and announcements

very

boring

Blah blahblah,

blah, blah blah

• 100% remote

• Contractors

• Varying skill level

• No formal training

• New LMS rolling out

• Off-site & decentralized faculty

• No space for ongoing discussion

• Disorganization of relevant training material

As we all know

Blah blah blah,blah, blah blah

So how do we go

from this

to this?

Start with the Basics of ID

Define your problem

• Examine “what is”

• Define what you want

• Identify the gap

Know your people

GAP

What is Goal

To engage faculty with things that matter:

– bringing new ideas to the workplace– excited about what they are learning– eager to discover more– make the student experience valuable– provide just in time solutions

Know Your PeopleDesign for the Working Adult

Why does this matter to me?

• Apply multiple methods of instruction to connect curricular concepts to useful knowledge and skills

• Collaboration Tools to encourage faculty interaction

• Utilize technology to provide relevant and timely information and to enhance the learning experience

Apply methods that work!

Our Solutions

• Synchronous

• Asynchronous

• LOTS of just-in-time

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• Humanized Webinars

– Pictures Connected People

• Content that Matters

– Using LMS

– Engaging in Discussion

– Library Updates

• Breakout Groups

• Call for Needs

• Varied Presenters

Faculty Open Forum

Encourage Collaboration

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F A C U L T Y Commons

• Jason’s twitter is @EricTheEthical

• He rocks.

• Hashtag #yaknow

To engage faculty with things that matter:

– make the student experience valuable

– excited about what they are learning

– eager to discover more

– bringing new ideas to the workplace

– provide “just in time” solutions

Lessons Learned

• Don’t assume online faculty are technically astute

• People resist change

• Ownership is fuzzy

• Provide things to drive them to the CoP

• Never, never, never give up

In the inestimable wisdom of the musical

philosopher, Miles Davis,

So what?

Takeaways

• Evaluate stakeholders according to their needs.

• Create an iterative development plan that integrates sufficient pre-design work.

• Collaboration tools

More Questions? Ping us!

Jean Marrapodijean.marrapodi@necb.edu

C: 401-440-6165O: 617-603-6907T: @jmarrapodi

Jason Kramerjason.kramer@necb.edu

C: 857-268-1237 O: 617-603-6914

T: @EricTheEthical

elearning@necb.eduT: @NECBelearning

NECB eLearning

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