EAC 539 Presentation: Know Your Role
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Know Your Role EAC 539 – Teaching in the Online Environment Spring 2014 Terry Herring Matt Misuraca Jenny Taylor Beth Vincent
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Know Your RoleEAC 539 – Teaching in the Online Environment
Spring 2014
Terry Herring
Matt Misuraca
Jenny Taylor
Beth Vincent
Roles and Competencies in Online Learning Environments
EAC 539, Spring 2014Know Your Role
Roles and Competencies in Online Learning Environments
EAC 539, Spring 2014Know Your Role
The Role of the Teacher
EAC 539, Spring 2014Know Your Role
The Teacher: Instructor Roles
• Pedagogical*
• Professional
• Evaluator
• Social
• Technologist
• Administrator
• Advisor/counselor
• Researcher
EAC 539, Spring 2014Know Your Role
The Teacher: The Pedagogical Role
• Competencies
– Design instructional strategies
– Develop appropriate learning resources
– Implement instructional strategies
– Facilitate participation among students
– Sustain students’ motivation
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Bawane & Spector, 2009, p. 392
The Teacher: More Requisite Competencies
Competencies to be developed to support future roles:
– Active leaders
– Reflective thinkers
– Researchers
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Teacher Education Framework
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Bawane & Spector, 2009, p. 384x
The Team Player: Behind the Scenes
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Instr. Designer
Program Coord.
Graphic Designer
Tech Experts
Media Developer
Tech Support
Testing Coord.
The Administrator: Course Quality Techniques
• Design courses that helps students construct knowledge
• Expect more detailed syllabuses
• Motivate students
• Align styles
• Include real world doing
• Use the web as an enhanced social environment
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Alley, 2009, p. 50
The Administrator: Course Quality Techniques
Rely on great teachers as pioneers and mentors.
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Alley, 2009, p. 55
The Role of the Student
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Transitioning Student Activities to the Virtual World
Interaction Examples
student-to-student Discussion board, blog, wiki
Instructor-to-student Discussion board, virtual classroom, group exchange, blog, wiki
Instructor-to-student/student-to-materials
Content items, blog, wiki, video uploads, attachment
Student-to-materials Usually occurs off-site
Student-to-instructor Quiz tools, discussion board, blog, wiki
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Palloff & Pratt, 2003, p. 101
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Baran, Correia, & Thompson, 2011, p. 431
Roles: Bringing it Together
• Roles & competencies will continually evolve.– Technology continues to
advance
– Our approaches to online learning develop
– More research is conducted
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Bawane & Spector, 2009
The Future
Instructor’s responsibility to continually research leading practices, evaluate technological advances and shifts within the online teaching profession, to ensure personal pedagogy and approaches are evolving and growing over time
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The Discussion Continues
Continued in the course discussion forums.
EAC 539, Spring 2014Know Your Role
References
Alley, L. (2001). What makes a good online course? The administrator’s role in quality assurance of online learning. Converge, 4(11), 50, 52+, retrieved from Education Research Complete (EBSCO), November 2007.
Baran, E., Correia, A.P. & Thompson, A. (2011). Transforming Online Teaching Practice: Critical Analysis of the Literature on the Roles and Competencies of Online Teachers. Distance Education, 32(3), 421-439.
Bawane, J. & Spector, J.M. (2009). Prioritization of Online Instructor Roles: Implications for Competency-Based Teacher Education Programs. Distance Education. 30 (3), pp. 383-397.
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