Assessing Prior Online Teaching Experience & Competency
The Missing Link of Online Faculty Review
Online enrollments grew by more than a million students last year, with just over 5.6 million students taking at least one online course. This bubble of demand keeps colleges and universities scrambling to engage more online faculty to meet the demand, and many of these new hires are veteran online instructors. How do you assess this prior experience to be sure your institution maintains quality?
Finding tools for evaluating online faculty, especially new hires, is critical to building a high quality online program. In this Magna seminar you will explore strategies and rubrics that are already in place and working at the University of Central Florida .
The University of Central Florida is one of the fastest-growing universities in the country, currently ranked as the second-largest public institution in the US with over 56,200 students. This kind of growth has placed enormous pressures on the academic delivery infrastructure and online learning has proven to be a key strategy to meet student demand. As new faculty members are hired to meet that demand, an increasing number of them join UCF with prior experience teaching online elsewhere.
UCF has developed an online form intended for selected faculty that determines if their experience, competence, and teaching philosophy meet UCF standards. The submitted information and course design artifacts are evaluated by instructional designers according to a rubric. This rubric can serve as a model for other institutions who wish to customize and use such an instrument to assess their experienced incoming online faculty.
Presented by Thomas B. Cavanagh, Ph.D.T, this 75-minute seminar takes a comprehensive look at UCF’s program for vetting incoming online faculty.
In this exclusive seminar on CD, you will:
- Explore UCF’s competency-based rubric for assessing a faculty member’s prior online teaching experience
- Examine the context, instrument, process, and validation strategy for evaluating online teaching competence
- Consider adapting and customizing the model
Supplemental tools include:
- Sample documents
- Rubrics
- Blank versions of checklists, rubrics, and other worksheets
Who should buy Assessing Prior Online Teaching Experience & Competency?
This seminar on CD is designed for all college/university distance learning professionals, including:
- Instructional designers and technologists
- Online Faculty
- Deans and department chairs supervising online learning
- Directors of distance learning
We give you powerful tools for evaluating the online teaching competence of new faculty members.
Assessing Prior Online Teaching Experience & Competency explores the context, instrument, process, and validation strategies developed by the University of Central Florida for evaluating the online teaching competence of newly hired faculty.
With concerns about quality growing more pressing, your institution must hire only the most prepared online faculty. This seminar shows you how.
Recorded: 9/14/2011
Running Time: 75 minutes
Video with PowerPoint
3 WAYS TO ORDER:
- PDF Transcript
- Facillitator's Guide
- Supplemental Materials
- PowerPoint Handouts
What people are saying about this seminar:
“This was an excellent presentation. Every institution with an online presence should implement the evaluation and the course, to properly assess its online faculty and ultimately, give students the education they pay for and deserve. The part about the importance of establishing a social presence was particularly insightful."
- Donna Aitoro, Managing Editor, Center for Educational Measurement
 | Thomas B. Cavanagh, Ph.D. |
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