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Critical Competenies for Teaching Online

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Recently, Larry Ragan, Director of Faculty Development for Penn State’s World Campus, was asked “how would you rank the critical competencies for teaching online?  Here are the 6 he identified:

1. Teaching and Learning

  • State objectives, expectations, & policies
  • Establish communication rules & group decision-making norms
  • Give prompt, effective feedback

2. Technology Aptitude

  • Know the LMS
  • Seek technology assistance
  • Be creative and flexible

3. Classroom Administration/ Management

  • Check & manage roster
  • Submit grades according to University policy
  • Manage drop/adds

4. Faculty Workload Management

  • Define time frames
  • Develop schedule & responsibilities
  • Communicate expectations

5. Building Community

  • Foster dialog & interaction
  • Provide for “space” for instructional & social interactions

6. Attitude/Philosophy

  • Be open minded
  • Take some risks
  • Be willing to fail (with support net!)

Read the full article from the Distance Education Report, November 15, 2009

How Would You Rank the Critical Competencies for Teaching Online? (pdf)

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Planning for Online Discussion




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I recently came across an interesting and comprehensive resource to assist Faculty in effectively planning to use online discussion.

Authors Barbara Frey (D.Ed.) and Linda Wojnar (Ed.D.) offer guidelines for planning,implementing and evaluating online discussions.

You can access the pdf through the Educause site: Preparing Faculty for Successful Synchronous and Asynchronous Discussions: Plan, Implement & Evaluate (pdf)

Do you know of other helpful resources related to online discussion? Please share with your colleagues by posting a comment (below).

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Many things to many people

Weblogs can be used for many purposes. This one is for sharing information relevant to teaching a distance course at UBC. So far, this has kind of been a one way street. But what about you? I’m sure many of you have comments, stories and issues to share with your colleagues, perhaps you’d like to seek some feedback or generate a discussion. One way to do this is through the use of Comments.

Click on the word Comments at the bottom of this entry and try it out! Your comment will appear as soon as it has been approved (annoying, I know, but the approval process cuts down on spam).

You might also want to post an entry on a subject of interest. In this case, for now, please send it to me and I will post it. If you want to post regularly, let me know and we’ll set you up as an author on the blog.

That’s all there is to it! Comment away!

Cindy

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Facilitating online discussions

A few months ago, some colleagues and I had an interesting chat with some of our online instructors about a variety of issues related to facilitating and managing online discussions. Various questions emerged such as:

How do I effectively enourage interaction?

What is the role of assessment?

What is the instructor’s role vs, students’ role in the process?

Though we didn’t come up with all the answers, we did produce some fruits of our labour in this wiki on Online Discussion.. Please feel free to contribute your thoughts, suggestions and ideas to it!!

Cindy

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