I am requesting your voluntary help. In preparation of my manuscript for the
dissertation, I am reviewing online courses at our university for fall 2010. I would like for you to take a look at the checklist items, tell me what you see in light of the checklist, and provide access to your online course(s).
Instructions: The following statements have been formulated to assist in the development of effective online courses in higher education that faculty can use to rate their online courses. Interactions in online courses, your technology use in teaching this online course, your
technology use in instructional delivery, and technology usage that you require from your students in this online course. The checklist has 9 standards:
Standard 1-Instructional Design; Standard 2- Teacher/Course Instructor Quality; Standard 3- Student Role; Standard 4-Assessment; Standard 5-Management and Learner Support; Standard 6-Course Resources; Standard 7-Student Rights; Standard 8-Technical and Infrastructure; and Standard 9-Accessibility.
This 152-item questionnaire should take approximately 25 minutes to complete. Your responses are extremely valuable contributions to this dissertation study and your
effort and time spent are sincerely appreciated. In addition, I would like to conduct an interview with you as a follow up.
Please check (√) or write the response that most clearly represents your opinion, attitude, situation, experience, or knowledge.
Please indicate your level of agreement with each of the following statements using the following scale: 1= Not Evident, 2= Disagree, 3= Neutral, 4= Fully Evident
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A. General Perspectives 1 2 3 4
a. My knowledge and strategies of technology incorporation in this online course is the result of institution-provided professional development.
b. My knowledge and strategies of technology incorporation in this online course is primarily the result of informal collegial instruction or support.
c. My knowledge and strategies of technology incorporation in this online course is primarily self-taught.
d. Teaching an online course is an important aspect of my professional career.
e. Technology incorporation into teaching and learning is very important for my students.
f. Effective technology incorporation can be a positive change agent, facilitate instructor and student interaction, student and students interaction, and student and content interaction, which promote students’ learning within my online course.
g. I value communication with colleagues concerning effective technology incorporation and ways to facilitate interactions and promote students’ learning in online courses. h. My teaching philosophy reflects my beliefs that students learn most effectively through teacher-student interaction.
i. My teaching philosophy reflects my beliefs that students learn most effectively through student-student interaction.
j. My teaching philosophy reflects my beliefs that students learn most effectively when provided opportunities to interact with content and construct their own learning.
2. Barriers to Technology Incorporation1 2 3 4
a. I do not have enough personal technology skills to integrate technology into teaching and learning in online courses.
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c. While designing my online course(s), I feel that the inclusion of technology requires too much of my time.
d. Technology integration into teaching and learning requires too much of my class preparation time.
e. Technology incorporation requires too much time within my online course delivery.
f. Using technological means (e.g. email, blog, wiki, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) to communicate with my students requires too much of my time.
g. Technology incorporation efforts are not important for my tenure and promotion process. h. I cannot depend on access to essential hardware.
i. I cannot depend on access to essential software.
j. There are limited institutional professional development opportunities at my university.
k. My university does not provide enough professional development opportunities that target the use of technology in instruction.
l. There is little or no administrative support for the incorporation of technology into online teaching and learning.
m. There is little collegial sharing, discussion, or support in my department. n. The online course(s) I teach does not lend itself to technology incorporation.
o. I lack essential knowledge of how to effectively incorporate technology into instruction to benefit student learning.
p. I have no concerns about using technology in teaching online courses.
3. Motivation for Technology Integration1 2 3 4
a. Technology incorporation benefits my students.
b. I am personally gratified from learning new technology skills and strategies. c. I see technology in teaching as a welcome challenge.
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d. Technology online course(s) results in recognition among my peers. e. I follow technology incorporation advice from a colleague.
f. I observed successful use of technology incorporation in someone else’s online course. g. I received student requests to incorporate technology into my
h. I received administrative requests to teach this online course. i. I am following an inevitable educational trend.
j. I participated in shared-decision making concerning departmental online courses offered or to be offered in the future.
4. Goals for Technology Incorporation 1 2 3 4
a. Through the use of technological tools, I am able to present more complex work to my students.
b. Through the use of technological tools, I expect an increased level of collaboration among my students.
c. Through the use of technological tools, I am better able to tailor students’ work to their individual needs.
d. Through the use of technological tools, I will spend less time lecturing to the entire class. e. Through the use of technological tools, I will spend more time working with smaller groups who are pursuing project-based work.
f. Through the use of technological tools, I will spend more time preparing materials and resources for instruction.
g. Through the use of technological tools, my students will more fully master my course content. h. Through the use of technological tools, my students will increase
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i. Through the use of technological tools, my students will show improvement in learning tasks, such as writing, analyzing data, or solving problems.
j. Through the use of technological tools, my students will demonstrate a higher level of interest in the subject.
k. Through the use of technological tools, my interaction with students will increase.
l. Through the use of technological tools, my students can work in an environment which appeals to a variety of learning styles.
m. Technology integration in my course provides a means of expanding and applying what has been taught.
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