How Can I Build Community with My Online Faculty?

In online education, faculty performance management is critical to ensuring quality teaching and learning, as well as student retention. Due to its solitary and asynchronous nature, faculty who teach online often feel disconnected from the institutions for which they work, and they may be physically distant from the home office or campus as well. As a result, both full-time and part-time online faculty may have inconsistent teaching performance, absences that exceed best practices or university standards, and poor communication with students, managers, and colleagues. Building community with your online faculty members can help you prevent many common teaching concerns, allow faculty to feel invested and like part of the team, and become a significant factor in student success.

Purchase the How Can I Build Community with My Online Faculty? 20-Minute Mentor program, presented by Bethanie Hansen, PhD, and learn to build community with online faculty as an essential component of performance management, effective ways to set the tone for both leading and managing online faculty, how to communicate clearly and consistently to keep faculty informed, and how to employ strategies for regular coaching outreach efforts to work with online faculty on a variety of teaching performance areas.

Learning Goals

Upon completion of this program, you’ll be able to:

• Communicate effectively with online faculty
• Know how to implement daily, weekly, monthly, and other routine methods to develop community among online faculty
• Set the tone for both leading and managing online faculty effectively
• Employ strategies for regular coaching outreach efforts

Audience

This program will benefit:

• Department chairs
• Deans
• Directors of online education
• Provosts
• Academic administrators

Product Code: OM18DD