Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt

The Excellent Online Instructor (eBook, ePUB)

Strategies for Professional Development

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Excellent Online Instructor is a guide for new and seasoned faculty who teach online, those responsible for training and developing online instructors, and administrators who must evaluate online faculty performance. This comprehensive resource describes the qualities of and explains how one can become an excellent online instructor. Written by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt--noted experts in online instruction--the book * Includes models based in adult learning principles and best practices * Offers guidelines to test instructors' readiness to teach online * Contains ideas for overcoming faculty resistance * Reveals how to develop an effective mentoring program * Shows how to establish a long-term faculty development effort Praise for The Excellent Online Instructor "Palloff and Pratt have a profound understanding of the online educational milieu, its complexities and challenges as well as the potential it opens up to serious educators dedicated to exploiting its full value. Practical and down-to-earth strategies are at the core of what the authors offer the reader in this engaging book." --Michael J. Canuel, CEO, LEARN Quebec "This book examines best practices for effective online teaching and instructor engagement and provides a concise plan for faculty development and effective training methods. Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt have provided another essential resource for the field of online teaching and learning that is a must-read for anyone working with faculty or teaching online in either higher education or K-12." --Kaye Shelton, dean, Online Education, Dallas Baptist University "Whether you are guiding departmental faculty or looking to improve your own online skills, Palloff and Pratt provide practical steps, tools to organize your processes, best practices to emulate, and valuable resources to help you achieve excellence online." --Lynn Olson, dean, Graduate and Professional Studies, St. Joseph's College Online

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118000908
• Artikelnr.: 38234287

Autorenporträt

Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt are the managing partners of Crossroads Consulting Group, working with academic institutions and organizations on the design and development of effective online distance learning programs. Rena and Keith are also program directors and faculty in the Teaching in the Virtual Classroom program at Fielding Graduate University. They are the authors of Assessing the Online Learner, Collaborating Online, Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom, The Virtual Student, and Building Online Learning Communities all from Jossey-Bass.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments. The Authors. PART ONE
The Excellent Online Instructor. ONE What Are the Characteristics of
Excellent Online Teaching? What Does the Excellent Online Instructor Look
Like? The Importance of Establishing Presence. Engaging Learners and
Creating Community. Excellence in Course Development. Providing Effective
Facilitation When Teaching Courses Developed by Others. Good Facilitation
Online:What Is Involved? Key Points That Define the Excellent Online
Instructor. Becoming Your Own Faculty Developer. TWO Phases of Development.
Faculty Readiness to Teach Online. The Phases of Online Faculty
Development. The Key to Understanding the Phases. Faculty Mentoring for
Online Teaching. Dealing with Faculty Resistance. Key Points Regarding
Training Needs and Phases of Development for the Excellent Online
Instructor. Becoming Your Own Faculty Developer. THREE Elements of Training
for Excellence. What Does Good Faculty Training Look Like? Online,
Face-to-Face, or Hybrid:Which Works Best? Who Should Conduct Training for
Online Teaching? Key Points in Training for Excellence. Becoming Your Own
Faculty Developer. PART TWO Supporting the Movement from New to Great. FOUR
Models of Faculty Development. A Phased Approach to Online Faculty
Development. Establishing a Long-Term Faculty Development Effort. The
Learning Community Approach to Online Faculty Development. Working with
Adjuncts at a Distance. Training Efficiently. Certificate Programs in
Online Teaching. Key Points Regarding Models of Online Faculty Development.
Becoming Your Own Faculty Developer. FIVE Mentoring Online Faculty. Common
Elements of Mentoring Approaches. Approaches to Mentoring for Online
Teaching. Developing an Effective Mentoring Program. What Organizations Can
Do to Promote Mentoring. Key Points About Mentoring Online Faculty.
Becoming Your Own Faculty Developer. SIX The Widening Gap: Professional
Development for K-12 Teachers. Online Teaching Methods in the K-12
Environment. Characteristics of Excellent Online Teachers. Preservice
Teacher Preparation and Professional Development. Coping Effectively with
the Issues and Challenges of K-12 Online Teaching. Key Points in K-12
Online Teaching. Becoming Your Own Faculty Developer. PART THREE Connecting
the Dots: Faculty Development and Evaluation. SEVEN Linking Training to
Faculty Evaluation. Online Course Evaluation and Faculty Evaluation.
Managing and Evaluating Faculty at a Distance. Key Points on Linking
Faculty Development to Evaluation. Becoming Your Own Faculty Developer.
EIGHT Best Practices in the Development of Excellent Online Faculty. Best
Practices for Faculty Developers and Faculty Tasked with Faculty
Development. Best Practices for Faculty Engaged in Their Own Development.
Best Practices for Institutions. A "Best System" for Developing Excellent
Online Instructors. Resources for Faculty Developers, Faculty, and
Administrators. Appendix A: Resources for Faculty Developers and Those
Tasked with Faculty Development. Appendix B: Resources for Faculty.
Appendix C: Resources for Administrators of Online Programs. References.
Index.