[Idag] IDAG - Professional Development Question

Thu Mar 13 10:30:25 EST 2008

Julie,

I'd be interested in meeting earlier than the end of the semester.  The first week in May would be better personally.  As the end of the semester comes, I do more training and workshops with the faculty - including the online learning professional development program that we run.  

To start information based the criteria Bobbi sent out, I would like to contribute the following:

Training name: Soaring with Online Learning 
Length: 6 week program
Delivery format (f2f or online): Online with F2F meetings at the beginning and end
Preparation for teaching online or for developing online, or both: Currently for developing & delivering; Summer 2008 splitting the program into 2 for those who will just be delivering courses and for those who will do both delivery and develop.
Institution: Salisbury University

- Melissa
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Melissa Thomas
Sr. Instructional Designer
Teaching & Learning Resources
Salisbury University
(410) 543-6510
mdthomas at salisbury.edu

>>> "Julie Shattuck" <JShattuck at frederick.edu> 3/13/2008 10:56 AM >>>
Great idea on how to get us started and organized Bobbi. I'd be happy to compile the master plan from what we post here. Would it be a good idea to organize a f2f meeting for interested people, maybe in May after the semester is over? In that meeting we could look at the master list, I could share my experience with national tutor certification processes and logistics, perhaps we could have Joan talk about her experiences in Virginia and the state grant, Bobbi could give us feedback on MOL, and we could come up with a plan. I'd be happy to host in Frederick, but I know a number of us are in Baltimore so maybe that'd be a better area to convene? We could also try online conferencing...though sometimes it's good to meet f2f for the initial planning - maybe with an option of conferencing in at a distance for those who can't travel.

Thanks,
Julie 

>>> "Karen Rubinstein" <karen.rubinstein at gmail.com> 3/13/2008 8:44 AM >>>
I am in the midst, and am almost done, creating an on-line training workshop
that will last about 8-10 weeks.  It's intense training, but the results of
my f2f version were good.  Our faculty have asked for it to be online..... I
agree they should experience what it's like to be an online student before
they go online themselves.
I'm happy to share my course, which is in Blackboard...... it's not done
yet, but almost.
Karen

On 3/12/08, Bobbi H. Dubins <bdubins at allegany.edu> wrote:
>
> Wow...I'm so excited to see this idea rearing it's head again.  I am going
> to speak to MOL about helping us to pull this project together, and put some
> kind of MOL "official" stamp on it.  Since MOL is already a consortium of
> Maryland colleges, that political animal is already taken care of.  That
> will also make it much easier to call it a "certification"...if we could get
> all MOL member institutions to agree that a particular set of trainings
> would qualify someone to be a "certified" online instructor.
>
> Perhaps this time there are enough of us interested in participating that
> we will get things rolling.  The idea of sharing our online faculty
> trainings has been discussed before, but it didn't seem like enough people
> were interested and the idea just sort of drifted away.
>
> In the mean time, it might be a good idea to start collecting our ideas
> and thoughts in some organized manner.  Why don't we start by sharing the
> titles/subject of faculty trainings we already have developed?  Would
> someone like to volunteer to keep a master list for us?
>
> I suggest that we include in the list all trainings that are offered to
> faculty to help them prepare to teach online.  I think it should include
> both f2f and online trainings...we can always convert the f2f to online
> trainings later.  So when we put something on our list it should include:
>
> Training name
> Delivery format (f2f or online)
> Preparation for teaching online or for developing online, or both
> Institution
>
> Sound like a plan?
>
> Bobbi
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: idag-bounces at marylanddla.org on behalf of Melissa Thomas
> Sent: Wed 3/12/2008 10:09 PM
> To: idag at marylanddla.org 
> Subject: Re: [Idag] IDAG - Professional Development Question
>
>
>
> I'd be very interested in this as well.  We are redefining our program
> which in the past prepared faculty to develop their online course as well as
> prepared them to delivery the course.  This summer we are about to embark on
> separating the program a bit for those faculty who just need to deliver and
> those who will both delivery and develop.
>
> We also incorporate the QM Rubric into our training program.  Please let
> me know how I can be involved as I am very interested in this concept and
> very willing to share many of the materials that were developed for our
> program.
>
> - Melissa
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Melissa Thomas
> Sr. Instructional Designer
> Teaching & Learning Resources
> Salisbury University
> (410) 543-6510
> mdthomas at salisbury.edu 
>
> >>> "Karen Rubinstein" <karen.rubinstein at gmail.com> 03/12/08 4:31 PM >>>
> Sounds like a good idea, I'm interested.  We here at Morgan are required
> to
> use the QM rubric....so I have created an online workshop based on those
> standards.
> Karen
>
>
> On 3/12/08, Julie Shattuck <JShattuck at frederick.edu> wrote:
> >
> > At the MDLA last week a few of us talked about the professional
> > development courses/workshops we had, or were working on, to train
> > faculty/adjuncts to teach online. It seems that we all do many similar
> > things and I would like to see if there is any interest in getting
> together
> > to create some kind of shared resources with the possibility of creating
> an
> > optional state-wide certification process for adjuncts/faculty in online
> > teaching competencies. I have experience of being involved in a national
> > certification program for college tutors and I found that many people
> like
> > the option to get certified. Bobbi mentioned that MOL had talked about
> > something similar in the past...
> >
> > If you're interested in exploring this idea, please let me know and we
> can
> > go from there.
> >
> > Thanks, I enjoyed getting to meet some of this group at MDLA and hope we
> > can work together on some projects.
> >
> > Julie
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Julie Shattuck
> > Instructional Designer/Assistant Professor
> > Frederick Community College
> > 7932 Opossumtown Pike
> > Frederick, MD 21702
> > Work: (301) 624 2855
> > Fax: (301) 624 2787
> > jshattuck at frederick.edu 
> >
> >
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