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Avoiding Faculty Burnout

by Sloan-C
Nov 12 2008 - 12:00am
Nov 21 2008 - 11:59pm
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-hour Live Panel Discussions - 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 will open soon.

Complete Workshop Description
Online Workshop Description:

Workshop Agenda at Glance
Activities begin Wednesday, November 21st. A live synchronous Question and Answer Online Session will be held on Friday of the second week, August 1st, 2pm-3pm ET. All activity is recorded, even the live events, allowing you to watch the events at a later date if you are unable to attend. All workshop content will remain available until the end of the 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 facilitators Molly Mott and Michael Mayo.

A Live Web Conferencing Session is conducted on Friday, October 24 th at 2PM(ET) (Online using Elluminate Live!): facilitated by Shari McCurdy and Nicola Martinez. 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 SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED FOR LATERVIEWING AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.

Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility:

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

Technology Used in this Online Workshop:
Elluminate™ Live! ™: Elluminate’s powerful Live! software will take this workshop to a whole new level of interaction. Well suited for the classroom environment, Live! provides the flexibility our workshop needs, from a speaker delivering to hundreds of workshop participants, from a speaker delivering to hundreds of workshop participants, to multiple small discussion groups occurring in unison. Live! effectively delivers lecture-type speeches, while also having the ability to facilitate collaboration among many individuals.

Elluminate™ Live! ™: Elluminate’s powerful Live! software will take this workshop to a whole new level of interaction. Well suited for the classroom environment, Live! provides the flexibility our workshop needs, from a speaker delivering to hundreds of workshop participants, to multiple small discussion groups occurring in unison. Live! effectively delivers lecture-type speeches, while also having the ability to facilitate collaboration among many individuals.

Moodle: Sloan-C will use an open-source learning management system called Moodle to administer the asynchronous component of the workshop. Sloan-C has found Moodle to provide a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools.

Moodle: Sloan-C will use an open-source learning management system called Moodle to administer the asynchronous component of the workshop. Sloan-C has found Moodle to provide a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools. As with most open-source technologies, the Moodle software is free, making it a very cost-effective software package for any institution or company. We have found though that low-cost does not mean that you have to sacrifice quality. Moodle still provides a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.

Pricing Information:

Price: $295 Each

Individual/Premium Sloan-C Member price: $145 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)

College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)

*Individual Premium Members receive 1 discount with membership, Institutional Premium Members receive 20 discounts, and College Pass Members receive 150 "free" seats in the entire 2008 Sloan-C Workshop series.

Presenter/Panelist Biographies
Biographies of Presenters/Panelists:

Shari McCurdy, University of Illinois Springfield
Shari McCurdy is the Associate Director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning and an adjunct faculty member of the Educational Leadership Department at the University of Illinois at Springfield. She has created, developed and teaches fully online graduate courses in educational technology. McCurdy 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.

Nicola Martinez, SUNY Empire State College
Nicola Martinez serves as direct Curriculum and Instructional Design for the Center for Distance Learning at SUNY Empire State College. In her previous position, she was both the director of instructional technology and the director of the university dance company, Sul Ross Ballet Folklórico de las Americas. Martinez has designed and implemented a number of innovative, university wide curricular improvement and development programs at micro and macro levels. These projects include large scale course development for a variety of degree programs (both on campus and in distributed environments), from multidisciplinary undergraduate programs to advanced hybrid graduate courses with residencies and online components. Martinez a bachelor's degree from the University of Ottawa, Canada; a master's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is finalizing a Ph. D at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.

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.

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