Collaboration during our NERCOMP presentation
Last week I drove to Norwood, MA and presented a session with Gail McKenna revolving around out tactics on Proactive & Reactive Faculty Support here at Bay Path University. We had about 65-70 people show up, some who had driven from as far away as northern Vermont. Our session was first on the agenda and despite the early morning hour, people were really engaging and exchanging ideas with each other.
This is what the Q& A session looked like, from my vantage point. We generated a long list of items that fell into being either a challenge or a solution when supporting faculty.
Here is a summary of the Challenges and Solutions the room of experts came up with. We also had some positive feedback. Here is the results of the evaluation sent our by the conference coordinators: Supporting Faculty Teaching Online Eval. I think people liked the whole day. I found it to be very collaborative imaginative and a really nice way to spend the day-good lunch and snacks too- always important.
| Challenges | Solutions |
| Role Definition | Adjunct faculty who gets paid to support faculty-like a pinch hitter Evening training & 2 days during the summer |
| Buy in-building relationships | Faculty network via a wiki and LMS forum for discussions |
| Hearts & minds – PR | Flex time to support faculty to develop online courses |
| Incentives | Release for faculty to develop: rubrics |
| How to teach online | Use baby steps: first blended or flipped classrooms, then online |
| Tools & the rapid change | Tech literacy |
| Introduction to LMS & to institution- exposure | |
| Provide examples: gallery of best practices, reception to celebrate & an academy to teach | |
| Institutional Quality with learning activities & implementation of technology | |
| Faculty network via a wiki and LMS forum for discussions | |
| Student feedback-evaluations |
