Higher education Adjunct faculty perceptions of needs in preparation to teach online CAPELLA UNIVERSITY Rita-Marie Conrad BlodgettMargaret CWith the rapid increase in online education offerings, institutions of higher education are hiring more adjunct faculty to teach online courses than to teach face-to...
in Ontario, for example, offers a one-week residential workshop for all new instructors at the main campus in London as well as those at satellite campuses. The program provides tips for effectively using the college’s LMS and for teaching online courses, ...
If you’re interested in teaching at a community college, you should know what they look for. The requirements vary, but there are some basics that hopeful community college professors should know.
This summer, thanks to the support of my principal, I was able to attend APLit training in an effort to prep my soph-ies for the rigor of the College Board. I’ve been doing similar work with APUSH for the last few years in my sophomore US History, pairing down the skills required ...
Courses required to complete the program. Whether an oral comprehensive exam is required. The universities at which the school’s graduates find teaching positions. Faculty research interests. See if there are one or more faculty members whose interests coincide with yours. ...
This may be a good resource for your lower-division courses. Some of the textbooks are presented in the form of online courses, and some of these—such as this 12-hour-long Holocaust course from The Open University—can be downloaded as a Creative Commons-licensed ebook. Community College ...
I have been teaching introductory Web design for 13 years in a variety of academic and commercial settings, and I’ve given a lot of thought to how we should be teaching two of the earliest and most basic courses in a college Web design and development curriculum. This discussion is importa...
With the rapid increase in online education offerings, institutions of higher education are hiring more adjunct faculty to teach online courses than to teach face-to-face. This descriptive, exploratory study used an online survey and focus group methodology to investigate faculty development experiences...
The present study investigated the job satisfaction of 205 adjunct faculty teaching standardized online courses at a private university in the United States. The extent of the relationship between demographic, motivator, and hygiene factors associated with adjunct faculty job satisfaction were identified. ...
(2011). Maryland online's inter-institutional project to train higher education adjunct faculty to teach online. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, (12)2, 40-61.Shattuck, J., Dubins, B., & Zilberman, D. (2011). MarylandOnline's inter-institutional project to ...