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Avoiding Faculty Burnout

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by Sloan-C
Nov 12 2008 - 12:00am
Nov 22 2008 - 12:59am
Key Online Workshop Information
Minimum Estimated Time Commitment:
~ 5 - 10 hours/week
Resources Provided in Workshop:

3+ hours of presentations as well as exemplary courses, viewable online until December 31st, 2008

1-Half Hour Live Workshop Orientation - Monday, November 17th, 2pm-2:30pm ET

1-hour Live Panel Discussion - Friday, November 21st, 2pm-3pm ET

During the Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A

After the Panel Discussion - Viewing of Q&A Session until December 31st, 2008
Event Summary:

As more institutions are offering ongoing degree programs online, faculty burnout increasingly is a concern for faculty, administrators, and instructional designers. Online faculty tend to spend more time preparing and teaching their courses as compared to onground faculty. For faculty, this translates into more grading, a 24/7 access mentality, excessive amounts of computer time, as well as more people pulling and grabbing for faculty time and attention. This workshop will explore the issue of academic management in online learning and ways to ensure that faculty can incorporate online teaching into normal academic life. In addition to learning skills to avoid burnout that derives from multiple sources, participants will be encouraged to share their own institutional practices as part of the conversation.

Registration open

Every participant will receive a welcome e-mail by noon the day the workshop begins with the workshop URL and an enrollment key that must be entered to access the site.

Complete Workshop Description
Online Workshop Description:

Workshop Agenda at Glance Activities begin Wednesday, November 12th. There are two live events for this workshop. First, a live synchronous Workshop Orientation Session will be held on Monday, November 17th, 2pm-2:30pm ET. The second event will be a live synchronous Panel Disucssion/Question and Answer Online Session will be held on Friday, November 21st, 2pm-3pm ET. Both live events will be recorded allowing you to watch them at a later date if you are unable to attend. All workshop content will remain available until the end of the 2008 calendar year.Workshop Description As more institutions are offering ongoing degree programs online, faculty burnout increasingly is a concern for faculty, administrators, and instructional designers. Online faculty tend to spend more time preparing and teaching their courses as compared to onground faculty. For faculty, this translates into more grading, a 24/7 access mentality, excessive amounts of computer time, as well as more people pulling and grabbing for faculty time and attention. This workshop will explore the issue of academic management in online learning and ways to ensure that faculty can incorporate online teaching into normal academic life. In addition to learning skills to avoid burnout that derives from multiple sources, participants will be encouraged to share their own institutional practices as part of the conversation.

Schedule:

November 12th – November 14th Activities: Learn Moodle, the workshop's learning management system, and Elluminate Live!, the workshop's web conferencing platform. Watch recorded presentations and begin reviewing guest courses.

November 17th – November 21st Activities: Continue reviewing presentations and ancillary materials; participate in discussion forum with workshop participants and facilitator Shari McCurdy.

A Live Workshop Orientation Web Conferencing Session is conducted on Monday, November 17th at 2PM(ET) (Online using Elluminate Live!): facilitated by Sloan Consortium Staff. We will tour the Workshop Space in Moodle and then open the forum up for Q&A and/or presentations/show-and-tell from workshop participants. THE SESSION WILL BE RECORDED FOR LATER VIEWING AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.

A Live Web Conferencing Session is conducted on Friday, November 21st at 2PM(ET) (Online using Elluminate Live!): facilitated by Shari McCurdy. We will begin the session with an open round of comments from the facilitator and then open the forum up for Q&A and/or presentations/show-and-tell from workshop participants. We will finish with a summary of thoughts from the facilitator. THE SESSION WILL BE RECORDED FOR LATER VIEWING AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility:

This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Online Teaching Certificate.

Pricing Information:
Presenter/Panelist Biographies
Biographies of Presenters/Panelists:

Shari McCurdy Smith is the Associate Director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning (OTEL) at the University of Illinois at Springfield and a facilitator of faculty development workshops for the Sloan Consortium. She has created, developed and taught fully online graduate courses in educational technology. She is an administrative fellow at the University of Illinois and volunteers as an "Elluminate Hero".McCurdy Smith directs grant projects that examine the assessment of learning outcomes and the use of synchronous technologies in online learning. She has presented at numerous technology conferences on topics ranging from best practices in online learning to plagiarism in the electronic classroom. Research interests include: unique delivery and design of online learning, faculty workload and burnout, assessment of online learning, Inter-institutional collaboration, and Web 2.0 applications.

Kathleen Ives, The Sloan Consortium

Kathleen S. Ives, D.M. has worked in online technology for over 20 years and serves as The Sloan Consortium's Director, Online Education. Formerly, Dr. Ives oversaw all forms of alternative instruction at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, MA (distance learning, accelerated programming). She teaches online for University of Phoenix and Axia College of Western University, and in an accelerated environment for working adults at both Regis College in Weston, MA and the University of Phoenix, Greater Boston Campus.

Dr. Ives began her career at CBS and helped to develop the service that evolved into Prodigy. She then spent fourteen years designing and implementing consumer online information services, first at AT&T and then at Verizon where she spearheaded the development of the nation's first online Yellow Pages product, now called superpages.com. Dr. Ives sits on the Massachusetts Department of Education's Distance Learning Advisory Board for Adult Basic Education. Dr. Ives has degrees in communication, communication management, and organizational leadership from the University of California at Davis, the University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication, and the University of Phoenix-Online, respectively.
Cancellation Policy:

If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop/seminar and are unable to attend, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.