Hiring, Integrating, and Evaluating Online Faculty

There are no rules, you can hire whomever you want, and those instructors can do anything they like.

After all, when it’s online, anything goes...of course you know that isn’t true.

But some of your residential faculty might have some sneaking suspicions that the standards for online instructors are different from—and lower than—those for traditional professors.

You don’t need dissention among the ranks, and you do need all of your instructors to understand your institutional environment and meet school teaching expectations.

Online instruction certainly brings new diversity to faculty, but that doesn’t have to compromise educational quality.

Colleges and universities can take some clear steps to ensure that they fully integrate online instructors into the campus educational community so that expectations and standards are clearly understood and maintained.

Learn about the best practices for hiring, integrating, and evaluating online faculty from Ann Taylor, the Director of the Dutton e-Education Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, at Penn State University.

With responsibility for guiding the College’s strategic vision and planning for online learning, Taylor works with faculty, administrators, stakeholders, and Institute staff to plan and implement online degree and certificate programs tailored to the needs of adult professionals world wide.

Informal and energetic, Taylor turns research findings into accessible ideas and tangible steps you can apply to your school right away.

After viewing in this seminar, you will be able to:

• Identify and adapt a number of best practices for hiring, integrating, and evaluating online faculty;
• Apply the findings from Penn State’s 2009 research study that combined a quantitative survey with qualitative field interviews of lead faculty and department chairs who work with online courses and programs; and
• Identify necessary efforts to recognize growing diversity among faculty and to reflect that diversity in hiring practices, professional development resources and experiences, and performance evaluations.

If your school is offering courses or programs online, then your faculty is likely changing.

Don’t let that growing diversity alter your expectations.

You can integrate remote professors into your educational culture and maintain educational quality when you know how to hire, how to integrate and train, and how to evaluate online instructors.

Who should view Hiring, Integrating, and Evaluating Online Faculty

• Higher education administrators
• Faculty
• Learning designers

Includes a Discussion Guide for Facilitators

Viewing a Magna Online Seminar on CD as a team can help your school address the increased faculty diversity that results from broadening online course offerings. This seminar includes a Discussion Guide for Facilitators. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for generating productive discussions and thoughtful reflection. You also get guidelines for continuing the conversation after the seminar, tailoring and implementing the strategies discussed, and creating a feedback loop for sharing best practices and challenges.

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