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Onboard, Don’T Orient, New Faculty, Jacqueline Kress
Onboard, Don’T Orient, New Faculty, Jacqueline Kress
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Each year 50,000 highly educated, accomplished people with no preparation for most of the tasks that comprise college faculty work will be hired. Typical orientation programs do not meet their needs to provide useful, timely information and skill-building. Onboarding programs are more effective, and the benefits go beyond the faculty.
Developing And Transitioning Faculty To Online Teaching, Barbara Serianni
Developing And Transitioning Faculty To Online Teaching, Barbara Serianni
SoTL Commons Conference
In the midst of decreasing trend in postsecondary enrollment, enrollment in fully online programs continues to trend upward (U.S. Department of Education, 2018). Given the persistent growth of online learning in higher education as the result of adding fully online courses to traditional on-campus programs of study and the persistent development of new fully online programs, the question of instructional effectiveness must be asked. Are faculty in traditional 4-year public universities prepared to effectively deliver online instruction and support the needs of online students? If they are, how were they prepared? If they are not, how can they be prepared?