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What Covid-19 Taught Us About The Blended Model, Deborah L. Wheeler, Jennifer Hill
What Covid-19 Taught Us About The Blended Model, Deborah L. Wheeler, Jennifer Hill
Teacher Development Faculty Working Papers
Initially, many faculty in higher education were apprehensive when courses went online in Spring 2020, but they eventually learned a lot about how to effectively teach online. The need for well-designed online courses for faculty in higher education is more prominent than ever-before in the wake of the COVID-19. As reluctant or apprehensive as faculty members were, the move to an online platform offered an opportunity to learn about diverse tools, resources, and innovative ways to teach both in the blended synchronous model and the asynchronous online model. Faculty and students encountered issues, but quickly learned to overcome these challenges. …
Maybe, Maybe Not: Examining Factors That Influence Adjunct Faculty Members’ Instructional Technology Usage, Mia Naseth-Phillips
Maybe, Maybe Not: Examining Factors That Influence Adjunct Faculty Members’ Instructional Technology Usage, Mia Naseth-Phillips
Culminating Projects in Higher Education Administration
This quantitative predictive study examines the influence of attitude, subjective norm (peer pressure) and perceived behavioral control on whether adjunct faculty will or will not utilize instructional technology in their classroom. Based on the Decomposed theory of planned behavior (Taylor & Todd, 1995) a survey of 286 adjunct faculty was conducted in a mid-western state-wide university and college system. The study also explored the working conditions of adjunct faculty which hinder their teaching withing the classroom. The finding shows the while attitude and subjective norm are statistically significant predictors of user’s intention, perceived behavioral control is the strongest predictor of …