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Faculty Perceptions on the Benefits of Instructor Evaluation for Improved Online Facilitation.

Session Date/Time
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 – 8:30 HST
Audience
Intermediate, Advanced
Session Description
This research study reviewed the Online Instructor Evaluation System (OIES) used by Park University’s Distance Learning program. The system is a peer/administrative means to evaluate adjunct instructors for effective online class facilitation. Online instructors who had been evaluated by the OIES were surveyed on their perspective of how the OIES impacted their online instruction. Both quantitative and qualitative results of the research survey indicated that online adjunct instructors perceived the OIES as a beneficial system to gauge and improve online facilitation.

Interactivity
Examples of the survey instrument and results will be proffered. As time allows, interactivity will include quizzing the audience members on their roles for their institutions, background in evaluation, and experiences with evaluation of online instructors.

Presenter(s)
Marthann Schulte, Park University, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
Marthann SchulteMarthann Schulte, PhD is an Associate Professor of Education at Park University, teaching and developing online courses for the graduate program in Adult Education. She is also the Coordinator of Online Faculty Evaluation and leads a team that oversees online instructor training, mentoring and evaluation. This evaluation team, which has created a number of unique, research based online training and evaluation programs, works with more than 500 online adjuncts per academic year. Marthann’s doctorate (PhD) is in Education, Curriculum and Instruction, from Kansas State University, where she focused on online learning and distance education modes. Marthann is a military spouse (Army) and works for Park University at a distance from Portsmouth, Virginia.

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Connecting, Collecting, and Curating – Leveraging Social Media to Engage Students

Session Date/Time
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 – 9:00 HST
Audience
Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, All Audiences
Session Description
In this session, participants will learn how to use three social media tools that can increase student engagement and critical thinking skills through connecting, collecting, and curating information. Twitter will be used as the connection tool, Tweetdeck the collecting tool, and Scoop.it will be the curating tool. Participants will be given suggestions for finding and following people, organizations, and hashtags in Twitter. In addition to definitions and examples, posting guidelines and ideas will be shared. The specifics for downloading and setting up Tweetdeck to collect and follow tweets and hashtags will be covered. Last, I will teach participants how to set up Scoop.it for curating information from the Web that students have identified, analyzed, and evaluated. Students utilize their critical thinking skills during the curation process and build repositories of information, accessible to them and their network.

The secondary gain from connecting, collecting, and curating with Twitter, Tweetdeck, and Scoop.it is the development of a Professional Engagement Network (PEN). Referred to as a Professional/Personal Learning Network (PLN) in many circles, the PEN emphasizes the process of engaging with and contributing to the network in addition to learning from the network.

There is a huge perk for you as an instructor as you develop your PEN by using Twitter, Tweetdeck, and Scoop.it … now you can connect to others in your field, while collecting and curating information for your own professional development and your students’ learning.

Interactivity
Participants will set up Twitter, Tweetdeck, and Scoop.it profiles, locate people to follow, practice Tweeting, organize and personalize Tweetdeck, and practice curating posts with Scoop.it.

During the presentation, participants will brainstorm ways to use these tools in their teaching. Q/A will be conducted as the last activity.

Presenter(s)
Cheri Toledo, Walden University, USA
Cheri ToledoCheri Toledo, a PhD Coordinator at Walden University, specializes in eLearning and social media in education. An educator for over 30 years, she has taught and coached on the K-12 and university levels and served as a 7-12 academic counselor and academic dean. Her research interests and publications revolve around strategic uses of current and emerging technologies to increase effective teaching and learning and issues and practices of blended and online teaching and learning environments. Cheri is active in educational networks through Twitter, LinkedIn, and her blog, Ed Tech Spin (http://drctedd.wordpress.com).

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