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How Faculty Learn To Teach Online: What Administrators Need to Know - 6 views

  • Participants overwhelmingly found smaller and more focused professional development opportunities were much more helpful than those offered on a broad level.
  • professional development sessions offered at the university level, while well intentioned, did not allow for tailoring to their specific or individual needs. The sessions were often too generic and provided too much information and often did not address the questions they had about content and structure.
  • ven more valuable than organized training sessions were informal small-group or one-on-one tutoring or mentoring sessions between inexperienced and experienced online instructors.
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  • The general consensus was professional development and support should be offered through a variety of different channels.
  • participants agreed that professional development should focus on curriculum development and the pedagogy of online teaching, in addition to technology tools.
  • the development of informal networks and contacts helped participants learn to teach online, and also to continually improve their online teaching.
  • Opportunities for self-directed learning should be made available to instructors, as well.
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    This could be a checklist for ALL professional development across education and, I suspect, other fields as well. Personalized, customized, sustained.
Tom Woodward

60-Second Adventures in Thought (combined) - YouTube - 3 views

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    60 second adventures in thought from The Open University.
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