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Creating A Supportive Culture For Online Teaching: A Case Study Of A Faculty Learning Community, Anne Marie Todd, Mei-Yan Lu Ph.D., Michael T. Miller
Creating A Supportive Culture For Online Teaching: A Case Study Of A Faculty Learning Community, Anne Marie Todd, Mei-Yan Lu Ph.D., Michael T. Miller
Faculty Publications
This case study describes the creation of a supportive culture for online teaching at a western university that was transitioning to a new learning management system. The case study highlighted the creation of a faculty learning community as one strategy to address the challenge of faculty working through a change process. The faculty learning community provided a space for the development of best practices in teaching, drawing from the pedagogical experiences of teachers from diverse disciplines. The learning community also provided a venue for expanding the technical knowledge level of faculty members with a range of comfort levels with varied …
Saying Goodbye To Friends: Situation Comedy As Lived Experience, Anne Marie Todd
Saying Goodbye To Friends: Situation Comedy As Lived Experience, Anne Marie Todd
Faculty Publications
The series finale for NBC’s sitcom Friends was a media event, a two-hour broadcast promoted for months, and immediately followed by cast appearances on late night comedy shows and the next morning’s news shows. The show’s popularity demonstrated by fan response to the last episode positions the online and broadcast media discourse surrounding the finale as a rich cultural text for examining the influence of the modern sitcom on fans’ cultural identities and social communities. The Friends broadcast finale taken together with the online discussion of the show creates a site for the production and consumption of fan culture in …
Creating A Supportive Culture For Online Teaching: A Case Study Of A Faculty Learning Community, Mei-Yan Lu, Anne Marie Todd, Michael T. Miller
Creating A Supportive Culture For Online Teaching: A Case Study Of A Faculty Learning Community, Mei-Yan Lu, Anne Marie Todd, Michael T. Miller
Anne Marie Todd
This case study describes the creation of a supportive culture for online teaching at a western university that was transitioning to a new learning management system. The case study highlighted the creation of a faculty learning community as one strategy to address the challenge of faculty working through a change process. The faculty learning community provided a space for the development of best practices in teaching, drawing from the pedagogical experiences of teachers from diverse disciplines. The learning community also provided a venue for expanding the technical knowledge level of faculty members with a range of comfort levels with varied …
Saying Goodbye To Friends: Situation Comedy As Lived Experience, Anne Marie Todd
Saying Goodbye To Friends: Situation Comedy As Lived Experience, Anne Marie Todd
Anne Marie Todd
The series finale for NBC’s sitcom Friends was a media event, a two-hour broadcast promoted for months, and immediately followed by cast appearances on late night comedy shows and the next morning’s news shows. The show’s popularity demonstrated by fan response to the last episode positions the online and broadcast media discourse surrounding the finale as a rich cultural text for examining the influence of the modern sitcom on fans’ cultural identities and social communities. The Friends broadcast finale taken together with the online discussion of the show creates a site for the production and consumption of fan culture in …