Three Tools for Making the Best Online Faculty Hires

Some faculty who excel in the traditional classroom also excel online. But it’s far from a sure thing, and you can’t hire strictly on the basis of success in a bricks-and-mortar environment. A whole host of other competencies need to be examined.

What are they? What unique skills and attributes should you look for? How do you hire the right people?

In a new online seminar, from Noon-1:00 PM CST on March 1^st, you can discover how one of the most respected programs in the country chooses its distance education faculty.

Three Tools for Making the Best Online Faculty Hires is a 60-minute online video seminar led by Annie Taylor, senior lecturer and current director of the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute at Penn State University. She’ll share the tools applied by Penn State to identify top candidates for three critical positions:

• Lead program faculty
• Course authors
• Course instructors
  
  

Key Takeaways

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

• Describe the characteristics of faculty who will be successful authors, instructors, and managers of online courses and programs;
• Conduct interviews that reveal those individuals who will best serve their online initiative;
• List recommended best practices for identifying qualified online faculty; and
• Create job ads that attract qualified individuals.

You’ll discover the pedagogical skills needed for online success … the essential technical knowledge … and the necessary interpersonal strengths. You’ll also learn how to attract strong candidates with well-crafted job descriptions – and what to ask in interviews to help determine the best person for the job.

Three Specific Job Aids you can use Right Away
In addition, participants will be given copies of three job aids that they can adapt and use for their online course authoring, instruction, and management hiring needs. These are the same working documents that Taylor uses to hire faculty to teach in one of the most respected distance learning programs in the country, Penn State’s World Campus, the recent recipient of an award from Sloan C for "Excellence in Institution-Wide Online Education."

You will learn how to use these tools, in combination with best practices related to the hiring process, to identify, interview, and select faculty who will meet their online teaching and learning needs.

The seminar will conclude with a dedicated question-and-answer session – your chance to gain added insights from one of the most experienced voices in distance education.

Modest Seminar Fee … and Colleagues Attend Free!

Like all Magna Online Seminars, this one combines exceptional content with an exceptional price – just $349. And that modest fee admits not just you, but anyone else on your campus who wishes to share in the presentation. Just sign on from a conference room, lecture hall, or other facility large enough to accommodate your group.

That’s a great way to leverage your investment – and so is this: After the live seminar, we’ll make the program available on-demand for a full week … and then we’ll send you a copy of the entire presentation on CD, complete with transcripts and supplemental materials, for an addition to your permanent resource library. We’re confident you won’t find a better professional-development value anywhere.

Who Should Attend

• Department chairs
• Directors of online learning
• Lead faculty

Join us March 1^st and learn how you can find and hire the best faculty for your distance education program.

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