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Achieving Learning Outcomes In The World Of Covid, Jeffrey Ward, Frederick Burrack
Achieving Learning Outcomes In The World Of Covid, Jeffrey Ward, Frederick Burrack
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Presenters assessment will explore how focusing on the learning outcomes guides faculty into determining best instructional practices in a remote/hybrid delivery method, illustrating examples of faculty shifting from traditional face-to-face teaching strategies to remote or hybrid teaching strategies, while achieving the same learning outcomes.
The Role Of Peer Inquiry Communities In Advancing Technology Integration For Practitioners In Adult Basic Education, Jennifer Kobrin
The Role Of Peer Inquiry Communities In Advancing Technology Integration For Practitioners In Adult Basic Education, Jennifer Kobrin
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper explores how peer communities, one element of a larger collaborative, inquiry-based professional development project in adult education, advance participants’ knowledge and use of technology. As the designer and facilitator of the project, the author drew from memos and field notes, in addition to interviews and written reflections with 6 of 9 total participants who were teachers and administrators in Adult Basic Education programs. Findings indicate successful technology integration entailed participants combining their own experiences with established research to create “knowledge-of-practice” (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 2009), and that knowledge generation within the peer communities reflected a horizontal trajectory.
Using Technology To Facilitate Faculty Evaluation, Theresa Glenn, Rise' Lara
Using Technology To Facilitate Faculty Evaluation, Theresa Glenn, Rise' Lara
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Are you tired of carrying a dozen or more 3-ring binders around to evaluate your faculty’s portfolios? Well say no more to the traditional faculty portfolio and go paperless. With the advent of Google sites, one department has streamlined the portfolio process with each faculty member having their own portfolio Google site.
Engaging Faculty And Students Within Fully Online Asynchronous Academic Departments, Jessica R. Nelson
Engaging Faculty And Students Within Fully Online Asynchronous Academic Departments, Jessica R. Nelson
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Presenter will discuss common barriers to implementing online programs including challenges of hiring distance faculty, communication breakdown between faculty and students, and issues with academic integrity. Best practices will be presented in order to help chairpersons overcome barriers to the online learning environment and engage both faculty and students with the use of innovation and inexpensive uses of telerobics, telecommunications software and enhancing their own universities learning platforms.
Mapping Technologies’ Impact On A Professional Program Chair’S Workload, Randy Howe
Mapping Technologies’ Impact On A Professional Program Chair’S Workload, Randy Howe
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Department chair practices appear more open and accountable to its publics than ever, a shift driven by want it now information demands from improved data gathering systems. In this discussion, a concept model will be presented to determine whether advanced structures and procedures live up to the hype of reducing chair workloads.
Mentoring, Managing, And Motivating Online Course Instructors: Emerging Chair Responsibilities, Mary B. Schreiner Ph.D., Scott Ballantyne Ed.D., Karen Thacker Ph.D.
Mentoring, Managing, And Motivating Online Course Instructors: Emerging Chair Responsibilities, Mary B. Schreiner Ph.D., Scott Ballantyne Ed.D., Karen Thacker Ph.D.
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
The number of online university courses continues to grow, and instructors of these courses need unique kinds of involvement with their department chairs. The presentation outlines best practices department chairs can use to mentor, manage and motivate online course instructors, based on both experience and emerging literature in this field.
How To Stay A.L.I.V.E. In A World Of Ever-Changing Technology: Keeping Up With Adult Learning In A Virtual Environment, Donna Mancuso, Dominique Chlup, Rochell Mcwhorter
How To Stay A.L.I.V.E. In A World Of Ever-Changing Technology: Keeping Up With Adult Learning In A Virtual Environment, Donna Mancuso, Dominique Chlup, Rochell Mcwhorter
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the benefits and barriers for adult learning within virtual environments.
Case Study Of Empowerment Through New Media Among Underrepresented Groups: Glbt Adults Gain Dominant Voice In The First Wave Of Podcasting, Kathleen P. King, Sharon R. Sanquist
Case Study Of Empowerment Through New Media Among Underrepresented Groups: Glbt Adults Gain Dominant Voice In The First Wave Of Podcasting, Kathleen P. King, Sharon R. Sanquist
Adult Education Research Conference
The podcasting movement is frequently described as “Democratization of the Media.” This case study research about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) podcasters from late 2004 to early 2008 reveals and characterizes how podcasting has yielded results of empowerment, voice, and a new media force
Web 2.0 Technologies: Disruptive Or Liberating For Adult Education?, Rita Kop
Web 2.0 Technologies: Disruptive Or Liberating For Adult Education?, Rita Kop
Adult Education Research Conference
Adult educators have been reluctant to engage with the latest second generation Internet technologies. New ideas on how these technologies could reform the structure and processes of adult education are examined in relation to Illich’s educational vision from the 1970s.
Situated Learning In Virtual Worlds: The Learning Ecology Of Second Life, Elisabeth R. Hayes
Situated Learning In Virtual Worlds: The Learning Ecology Of Second Life, Elisabeth R. Hayes
Adult Education Research Conference
This research investigated the “learning ecology” of the virtual world, Second Life. Study goals were to: (a) determine how the design and social dynamics of one virtual world support as well as constrain various types of learning, and (b) suggest implications for the use of virtual worlds in adult education.
Intuiting, Socializing And Playing Around: Women’S Stories Of Informal Learning In The Information Technology Field, Shauna Butterwick, Kaela Jubas, Hong Zhu, Jen Liptrot
Intuiting, Socializing And Playing Around: Women’S Stories Of Informal Learning In The Information Technology Field, Shauna Butterwick, Kaela Jubas, Hong Zhu, Jen Liptrot
Adult Education Research Conference
This report is based on a study of the informal and alternative approaches to learning of women who are working in the rapidly expanding and changing IT field. Using their intuition, borrowing and sharing expertise, and through trial and error, study participants describe essential forms of learning often unacknowledged by both workers and employers