Conceição / Lehman Managing Online Instructor Workload

Strategies for Finding Balance and Success
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-07555-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Online Teaching and Learning Series (OTL)

Managing Online Instructor Workload is a groundbreaking bookthat offers strategies, advice, illustrative examples, and afour-step process for identifying challenges and rethinking,prioritizing, managing, and balancing one's online instructionworkload.
Based on surveys and interviews with successful onlineinstructors, the book is filled with timely and comprehensiveinsight that is essential for online instructors, instructionaldesigners, faculty developers, and anyone who wants to succeed inonline learning.
Praise for Managing Online Instructor Workload
"Managing Online Instructor Workload breaks the pattern of priordistance learning books with its research-based orientation byincluding a broad range of experience. This is a valuable resourceto encourage greater faculty persistence andadoption."--Kathleen P. King, professor of higher education,University of South Florida, Tampa
"This is a must-read for all online instructors who strive notonly to provide a high-quality learning experience for theirstudents but also maintain a quality life of theirown!"--Rita-Marie Conrad, online educator and author
"Do you teach online? Do you need sleep? Here is the first bookthat I know of that will allow you to do both?no more endless hourswasted online attempting to be an effectiveinstructor."--Curtis J. Bonk, professor, Indiana University

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conceição, Simone C. O.

Lehman, Rosemary M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables.
Preface.
About the Authors.
One Issues and Challenges When Teaching Online.
Institutional Issues and Challenges.
Instructional Issues and Challenges.
Our Study on Instructor Workload When Teaching Online.
Summary.
Two Instructors' Stories for Balancing Workload.
Co-Teaching as a Strategy for Balancing Workload.
Planning Ahead as a Way to Predict Workload.
Giving Individual Feedback as a Workload ManagementStrategy.
Managing Time, Rather Than Time Managing You.
Blocking Out Time for the Online Course.
Teaching Online During Short Terms.
Using Time Allocation Strategies When Teaching for MultipleInstitutions.
Teaching Online Exclusively from Home.
Managing Workload Based on Years of Experience.
Teaching Online for a Variety of Institutions.
Cohort Program as a Time-Saver.
Managing Similar Tasks When Designing for Multiple Courses.
Teaching a Recurring Mixed-Mode Online Course.
Managing Workload When Current Information Drives Content.
Summary.
Three Looking at Workload from a Design Perspective.
Identifying Course Tasks.
Why It Is Important to Use an Instructional Design Process.
Design Framework for Creating a Sense of Presence.
Using a Template to Manage Tasks and Prioritize Time.
Summary.
Four Managing Tasks and Prioritizing Time.
Creating a New Online Course.
Converting a Face-to-Face Course.
Revising an Existing Online Course.
Summary.
Five Using Workload Strategies for Maintaining Quality ofLife.
Design Strategies.
Support Strategies.
Teaching Strategies.
Time Allocation Strategies.
Summary.
Six Final Thoughts and Practical Implications for BalancingWorkload.
Teaching from an Open Perspective.
Adapting the Course Design.
Modifying Workload Strategies.
Rethinking How to Prioritize Time and Manage Workload.
Practical Implications for Balancing Workload.
Glossary.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Simone C. O. ConceiÇão is an associate professor inthe School of Education, Department of Administrative Leadership atUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the editor of TeachingStrategies in the Online Environment and coauthor of Creating aSense of Presence in Online Teaching both from Jossey-Bass.
Rosemary M. Lehman is an author and consultant for eInterfacewith more than 20 years of experience as a learning design anddistance education training specialist at University ofWisconsin-Extension. She is coauthor of Creating a Sense ofPresence in Online Teaching from Jossey-Bass.