Today's the Day: Balancing the Reality of Faculty Scholarship with Innovations in Digital Authorship

Today's the Day: Balancing The Reality of Faculty Scholarship with Innovations in Digital Authorship

NOREEN BARAJAS-MURPHY

Designing curriculum and authoring course texts are the products of innovative faculty members and should be considered a form of teaching effectiveness & scholarship.

One Faculty Developer’s Journey

Choose Your Own Adventure FormatA story in three parts

#TodaysBarrier1

#TodaysBarrier2

#TodaysBarrier3

#OLCInnovate

Introduce yourself to the members of your table◦ Name + role you play at your

institution or organization

How do I introduce instructional design into a culture accustomed to professional development that is optional?CHAPTER ONE

#TodaysBarrier1 #OLCInnovate

Existing ConditionsStrong ties to CTL programming

Broad LMS adoption

Broad SoftChalk usage

Broad screen casting use and self-produced video content

A pre-requisite technology course for students


“I wish you could do this for me so that I could focus on

the teaching…”


Instructional Design


Establishing Instructional Design As a Service IN a Faculty Development Department

Year 1: Establishing Programmatic Outcomes and Assessments

Year 2: Developing a Culture of Instructional Design + Four Courses

Year 3: Six Additional Courses

Year 4: Analysis and Revision

Year 5: Institutionalize ID#TodaysBarrier1 #OLCInnovate

The Art of PersuasionDOWNSIDE

Faculty counted on course overages to supplement their income

A course release would flag the number of overages each had

Stipends were disallowable during academic year

Faculty did not want to work during summer even if there was a stipend

UPSIDE

ID team would design and build all content

Budget allowed for course development equipment and software

Course Design and Implementation Equipment:• MacBook Air

• iPad mini

• Jawbone Jambox speaker/mic

• Apple TV


ExpectationsJUNIOR FACULTY MEMBER

Intended to use toward T & P binder

Expected teaching evaluations to show improvement

Planned to use for conference presentations

INSTRUCTOR (ADMIN PROFESSIONAL)

Revise Flipped Class Materials

Intended to increase efficacy among tenured faculty

Expected to strengthen and balance areas of content

Expected a significant improvement to course content


RedesignedJUNIOR FACULTY

Revised 16 individual slide decks for each course topic and supplemental help materials

Recorded all course lecture material and organized into a streaming course channel

Created multiple low stakes quizzes for rehearsal and practice of course content

Created on-demand test preparation materials with feedback

Set up entire course in LMS with gradebook

INSTRUCTOR

Revised slide decks for lecture material

Built a complete test bank from course text and ancillary readings

Revised all in class activity cards for group work

Set up entire course in LMS


Bad Press

No new takers – the remaining 6 faculty

members all declined the opportunity to work with

the ID team to redesign their course content


#TodaysBarrier1How do you create a culture of instructional design with clear expectations?

Can faculty content authorship be included as a measure of teaching effectiveness and scholarly contribution?CHAPTER TWO


However…

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One Liberal Arts College

Teaching Scholarship Service

Could a faculty expert use their published content and its adoptions within their discipline as evidence of teaching effectiveness?


6. eAuthored Responsive

5. eAuthored Interactive

4. e/Authored Textbook

3. Curated Resources

2. Compiled Resources

1. Custom Textbook

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1. Custom Textbook

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Faculty curates course readings from multiple published sources into electronic and/or printed book (GinkgoTree, OER use, Adobe PDF)

Faculty compiles course reading list from multiple published sources into a centralized course location (CMS, LMS, course specific website)

Publishing company assembles textbook from multiple published sources (Pearson, Macmillan)







1. Custom Textbook

@nononi28 @gratzee

Faculty authored, personalized learning through responsive, branching, interactive, feedback-looped, graded, (Adobe DPS, OER authorship)

Faculty authored, feedback-looped (quizzes), interactivity, graded (Adobe DPS, OER authorship)

Faculty authored course text basic interactivity (highlight, comment, bookmark, videos, hyperlinking) (e-book, OER authorship, GinkgoTree, Adobe PDF)


#TodaysBarrier2What strategies would you use to establish faculty authored content as a measure of scholarship and teaching effectiveness?

The free market,open distribution & reuse-where does it fit in academic content publication?CHAPTER THREE


Institutions that honor the time needed to develop exemplary digital contentwill fuel innovation


Institutions that honor the time needed to develop digital contentby providing course releases,

course development sabbaticals

or other strategies that build time into professional responsibilities

will fuel innovation#TodaysBarrier3 #OLCInnovate

#TodaysBarrier3What institutional policies would you advocate for related to faculty who want to distribute their content?

Today's the Day: Balancing the Reality of Faculty Scholarship with Innovations in Digital Authorship

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