We won’t figure out online and hybrid learning -- in higher education, at least -- until we truly value faculty development and pedagogical training. The minimal top-down efforts I’ve seen toward this end have been largely ineffective. We need to start at the grassroots level to weave pedagogical work into our research and publishing. If teaching is indeed 40-80% of our jobs (depending on the type of institution), then the sessions at our disciplinary conferences should be 40-80% about teaching (or at least make explicit connections between our research and teaching). Pedagogy is not the domain of Schools of Education and should be a respected specialty or sub-field in every discipline. And departments developing online and hybrid courses need to start by hiring full-time or tenure-track faculty who specialize in online learning and/or digital pedagogy.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:27:41 +0000
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