Fine Tuning Online Faculty Development Workshops

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Kathy FletcherManager of IT Training

Office of Information TechnologyWest Virginia University

• Public land-grant institution

• Research University

• Fall 2011 student enrollment: 29,617

• 5668 FT employees + 847 PT

• Office of Information Technology• Central IT support for campus. The 2

groups providing faculty support:• Application Support and Training

• iDesign (formerly ITRC)

Corrections to my paper• ITRC is now iDesign as of August 2012

• http://oit.wvu.edu/training/online-facdev/ - not all descriptions are there and no statistics yet (coming soon)

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Online Faculty Development Instructional Technology Workshops• Instructors / Course Creators• 5 iDesign staff members • 2 trainers from Application Support and

Training

• Scheduling• fall & spring via Provost’s Office • OIT Workshop Schedule

• Software Tools• Blackboard Vista 8 (WVU eCampus Learning

Academy)

• Wimba Classroom

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Past & Current Workshops include• Accessibility in Advance

• Are your online students actively engaged?

• Basic Flash for Faculty

• Course Cleanout: Housekeeping for Your Online Course

• eBook Evolution

• Instructional Design

• Designing Text for Online Courses that Beg to be Read

• Keeping it Legal: Copyright Crash Course

• Keeping it Legal: What to Watch Out for in Social Media

• Online Video for Educators

• Podcasting

• Turnitin

• Wimba Classroom

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Online Workshop Features & Tools• Content• Audio with transcripts• Software demonstrations• PDF handouts• Learning modules (formatted HTML text)• Webinar archives

• Learning Activities• Assessments• Assignments• Discussions• Notes• Practice courses• Wimba Classroom webinars

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Podcasting Online Workshop

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Managing Online Workshops

• New sections• Request copy from Development Institution• Clone from previous

• Enrollment• Timing• Overlook a name• Forget to deny access

• Tracking Participation• Time logged in

• What was accessed

• How to assess learning

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Fine Tuning• Content modification• Update web links• Update due dates• New welcome messages• Revise assignments• Add navigation aids• Forget about holding online office hours• Add learning activities• Break into smaller modules•Modify length of time open

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Learning Module Icon Before

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Instructor Survey / Discussion• Attendance

• Technical Issues

• Communicating with participants• Office Hours• Contact Frequency• Discussions

• Assessment

• Evaluation Form

• Types of changes

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Lessons Learned

• Focus content

• Finish before you begin

• Consider length and timing of workshop

• Provost’s Office best way to offer/publicize

• Create separate sections

• Email reminders to participants

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Future Plans

• Develop uniform attendance reporting

• More practice shells for learning activities

• Compare attendance statistics with face to face versions where applicable

• Recreate workshops in Learn 9

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What is an online workshop?

“…an online workshop is more than just a lot of well-organized content and learning activities attractively arranged—any workshop or course, whether online or in a classroom, also depends on the participants’ background skills, motivation, and available time.”

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“…a workshop will be modified as needed to reflect growth in the instructor’s own knowledge of the topic and online teaching.”

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Contact Info

kathy.fletcher@mail.wvu.edu304-293-8769http://oit.wvu.edu/training/

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