BESA ANNUAL BUSINESS EDUCATION / CIS FACULTY-STAFF DEVELOPMENT 25th Annual Asilomar Conference
Professor Joseph Perret Los Angeles Pierce College
A New Strategy for Instructing Faculty
“How to Teach Online”
Need
Positive Negative
y Explosion of Online Courses y Student demand for courses y Admin wanting to ‘Cash in’ y CMS are mature and
inexpensive (Moodle)
y Faculty do not understand the
Pedagogy of teaching online
y Faculty has no experience as
online students
What We Were Doing Was Not Working
y We tried Vendor course – intense one week course that
focused on how to use the CMS
y Result – no new courses were started
y Surveyed faculty – the skills did not stick, not enough practice and
coaching
y We tried in service – consecutive Fridays y 20 started – 2 finished
y Surveyed faculty – caught up with distractions, could not keep up
with assignments, no feeling of commitment.
y We tried using College Certificate Programs and @One y Few signed up - 4
y Surveyed faculty – too long a commitment, wanted a “quick start” y The ones that did sign up had a high % of completion - 80%, and
Our Conclusion
We needed an approach that
y Teaches both Pedagogy and CMS y Gets instructors committed
y Provides a ‘Quick Start’ – no longer than 5-weeks y Gives faculty experience as online students
y Expands beyond our college – not large enough customer
base to support a class (20 students or so)
Created a new Course
y CAOT-134 How to Teach an Online Course y 1.5 units
y 1 standard hour per week lecture
y 1 standard hour per week lab with homework y 36 hours total
y Credit/no Credit
y Conducted entirely online y Offer in 5-weeks
y Middle of the semester (when least busy) y Winter intersession or Summer sessions
Why Create a Course?
y Students (faculty) are them committed y Easier to publicize
y Admin support (WSCH) y Instructors are paid
Goals
y Give faculty-student the experience of a fast paced online course
y Develop an understanding of online pedagogy
y Model best practice online pedagogy within the course
y Review the basic elements of Course Management Systems y Demonstrate the basic elements of managing an online
course
y Create the first two weeks of faculty participant’s online courses.
Course Outline
y Conducted entirely online
y Credit/no Credit – but assign grades to all projects
y Give the feedback
y Give them incentive (700 points or better to get Credit) y Give them experience with gradebook in CMS
y Orientation session
y In person (seldom) y Via CCCConfer.org
Week 1 & 2 Online Student
y Focus of Week 1 & 2 is to give the faculty/student
experience as an online student
y Model – show them via example
y Good pedagogy
y Good course management
y CMS – learn to use CMS from student perspective y Give them assignments and due dates
y Have them do a group project
Axiom
y Mechanics cars never run well y Doctors are the worst patients y Teachers are the worst student
y Like herding cats
y Spend a lot of time the first two weeks coaching
y If they have not logged in for 48 hours they get an email y If they have not logged in for 72 hours they get a phone call
Week 3-4-5 Create a Course
y The final 3 weeks of the course focuses on creating the first two
weeks of the faculty/student’s actual courses
y Also cover Accessibility and Fair Use
y There are required elements in the courses y Used to teach both CMS skills and pedagogy
y Examples: Lecture, PowerPoint, YouTube, Quizzes
y The enroll in each others courses and act as students (submit
assignments, take quizzes etc)
y This gives them actual ‘student’ data so they can y Grade assignments
y Give feedback
Follow up Support
y Commitment to work with them after the course is completed
y Formed strong bonds with group members
y Maintain a database of those that complete the course and recommend them to departments
y Working on a the next phase “Advanced - How to Teach an Online Course”
Results
y
Course has been offered 4 times
y
Total of 100 students attempted the
course
y
70% completion rate
y
60% have gone on to create online
courses or online content to traditional
courses
Next Course
y Fall 09 semester
y Los Angeles Southwest College (http://www.lasc.edu) y CAOT-134 How to Teach and Online Course
y Section 0852
y 5-week course starts 10/5/09 –ends 11/6/09
