Abstract

This Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is dedicated to preparing and developing faculty in the area of online facilitation and teaching. We plan to prepare at least ten faculty to offer hybrid or full online courses by Fall 2008. The intended impact on student learning will be that online courses are as good as or better than their face-to-face classroom offerings in both content delivered and in learning experience. The outcomes of face-to-face courses transformed into online courses will be compared to the outcomes of the traditional courses (exam grades, assignments, etc.), and student course evaluations will be tracked.

Goals

Cedarville University's FLC has the following major goals:

• Develop a robust track on our faculty development calendar for those faculty members wishing to facilitate a hybrid or fully online course.
• Develop a robust faculty web site with tools, research, course criteria and techniques for online course facilitation.
• Prepare at least ten (10) faculty to offer hybrid or full online courses by Fall 2008.
• Benchmark and share resources with other universities offering similar preparedness training to faculty.

The learning goals for this specific FLC in using educational technologies for teaching and learning are as follows:

• Introduce learning team members to new educational technology and its possibilities.
• Adjust the faculty teaching mindset to methods more conducive to online facilitation.
• Teach the major technologies chosen for use in online courses.
• Introduce and engage the learning team members to what other colleges and universities are accomplishing with online education.