Creating Win-Win Opportunities: Online Education

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Creating Win-Win Opportunities Online Education
Tenure Track Faculty

• Marilyn J. Wells, PhD, MPH
• Assistant Professor Coordinator, Health
  Education
• Hampton University
• Hampton, Virginia
• The 10th Annual Sloan-C International Conference
• on Asynchronous Learning Networks
• Orlando, FL November 14, 2004

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Purpose of the Presentation

• Highlight one teaching faculty members
  perspective on how integrating tenure track
  faculty into the online education experience can
  create win-win opportunities for both parties,
  yield unexpected rewards for the program,
  facilitate innovative approaches to common
  challenges.

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Presentation Objectives

• List 3 emerging challenges for online education
  programs and tenure track faculty
• Identify 5 benefits academic, scholarly,
  personal, or financialof integrating tenure
  track faculty into online education
• Brainstorm 3 tactics for creating win-win
  opportunities for online education and tenure
  track faculty within your own setting or
  institution

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My Faculty Experience in Online Education

• Hampton University 1999 to present
• Distance Education Religious Studies BA Program
• Instructional Technology Assistance Program
  (ITAP)
• Provosts Teaching Innovation Award
• Health, Culture, Technology Digital Diversity
  for Educators Funded Projects
• Technology Conference Closing the Digital
  Divide
• Departmental Technology Task Force

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Emerging Challenges for Online Education
Programs

• Market Niche
• Accreditation Standards
• Student Recruitment Retention
• Qualified Faculty
• Technological Support
• Fiscal Responsibility

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Higher Education in Transition
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Challenges Facing Tenure Track Faculty Today

• Traditional Hallmarks of Academia
• Teaching, Research/Scholarship, Service
• Institutional Resources
• Travel Money, Computers, Mentors
• Professional Fulfillment
• Intellectual Challenge, Mentors, Collegiality

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Professors in Transition
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Common Goals . . .

• Support institutional mission
• Strive for national recognition
• Are outcome oriented
• Emphasize back to the basics
• Seek to create learning communities
• Generate revenues resources

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The Potential Benefits . . .

• New mentoring networks
• Innovative pedagogical approaches
• Higher level of technological competency
• Expanded research opportunities
• Transference to traditional programs
• Financial incentives

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Success Stories

• BlackBoard Training
• Among the very first to receive training
  expanded training,
• which enable tenure track faculty to be a center
  of influence
• within their respective departments

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Success Stories

• Spirituality Wellness
• A New Pre-conference Seminar for our
• Healthy Choices for Minorities 2nd Annual
  Conference Health Fair, Fall 2001

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Success Stories

• Hampton University Ministers Conference Choir
  Directors-Organists Guild Workshop
• Army Chaplains Luncheon

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Success Stories

• Government Agency Report
• Innovative Course Assignment
• Required all the research of a traditional term
  paper,
• presented in an eye-catching newsletter
• prepared on Microsoft Publisher
• Transferred to other online courses traditional
  classrooms

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Success Stories

• The 10th Sloan-C International Conference on
  Asynchronous Learning Networks
• Scholarly Presentation
• Professional Development Opportunity

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In Reflection

• Any sufficiently advanced technology
• is indistinguishable from magic.
• Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future
• English physicist science fiction author

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How can you make magic?

• Who can be your partners?
• What do you want to do?
• Why do you want to do this?
• When would you like to do this?
• Where would you like to do this?

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Acknowledgement
Dr. Calvin Sydnor, III Director, Religious
Studies Hampton University Hampton, VA
23668 Calvin.Sydnor_at_Hamptonu.edu
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For More Information
Dr. Marilyn J. Wells Assistant Professor
Coordinator, Health Education Department of
Health, Physical Education, Recreation Hampton
University Hampton, VA 23668 Marilyn.Wells_at_Hampton
u.edu
Summer 2001 1st BlackBoard Training Workshop 6
months pregnant