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Effectively Evaluating Online Faculty, David Line Denali, Mary-Katherine Smith, Stephen F. Pyle Mar 2016

Effectively Evaluating Online Faculty, David Line Denali, Mary-Katherine Smith, Stephen F. Pyle

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Online courses and instructors require administration to use innovation to create valid faculty evaluations. This session examines why teaching evaluations need to be adjusted and how to make those adjustments to in order to effectively evaluate the faculty and therefore, keep administration, promotion committees, and faculty content.


Active Knowledge Sharing In Online Group Work, Bo Chang Jan 2016

Active Knowledge Sharing In Online Group Work, Bo Chang

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this paper is to explore how to support active knowledge sharing and creation in an online group work which both encourages collaboration and motivates individual effort.


Personal Growth, Social Change Or Human Capital: A Document Analysis Of An Online Education Program For Adult Learners, Nakita Dolet, Maeghen L. Macdonald Jan 2016

Personal Growth, Social Change Or Human Capital: A Document Analysis Of An Online Education Program For Adult Learners, Nakita Dolet, Maeghen L. Macdonald

Adult Education Research Conference

This document analysis interrogates how one institution balances classically competing objectives of emancipatory learning, personal growth, and human resource development in an online adult education program.


Online Faculty Development: What Works?, Anita Samuel Jan 2016

Online Faculty Development: What Works?, Anita Samuel

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study conducted with online faculty. Faculty talked about the training and support services they utilized and found most effective when teaching online.


Building Online Learning Communities Utilizing Adult Learning Andragogical Principles, Yaxin Zheng, Susan J. Barcinas Jan 2016

Building Online Learning Communities Utilizing Adult Learning Andragogical Principles, Yaxin Zheng, Susan J. Barcinas

Adult Education Research Conference

This exploratory practice-based project considers how current online pedagogical practices centered on creating a learning community (Palloff & Pratt, 2007) integrate with principles of designing and implementing adult learner friendly learning experiences (Knowles, 1984) in online courses.