This session will explore twelve strategies administrators can use to promote growth in online programming while ensuring the qualilty of those offerings.
This session received high reviewer ratings and is runner up for Best-in-Strand.
Online education continues to be of interest for both students and faculty. However, it has been my experience that at many institutions, faculty, staff and administrators forge ahead with online initiatives without much planning, anticipating the resource implications, or thoughts about faculty development. On the surface this session may appear to be only of interest to online administrators, but I believe faculty will find this session informative and useful. Topics for this session will include creating an online advisory board, creating an online policy and procedures manual, establishing an online course review process, and student support services for online learners.
Session outcomes
After participating in this session participants will be able to:
1. Identify 12 strategies their institution could consider developing that would contribute to the growth of online education while ensuring quality.
2. Describe how implementing some or all of the 12 strategies could benefit their institution.
3. Develop a plan for sharing these 12 strategies with faculty, staff and administrators on their campuses.
Engagement strategies
I have been teaching university students for over 20 years and realize the importance of creating and delivering content in a way that is informative, meaningful and engaging to students. I’ve also learned this holds true for professional audiences at workshops, seminars and conferences. Generally, I try to limit the amount of “direct speaking at audiences” I do and use engagement strategies such as sharing content through videos, work related stories, having participants interact with each other and then share major points to the entire group, etc. This would be a highly interactive session.