Project Background and Acknowledgements
Teaching Online: A Portable Online Workshop for Faculty and Staff Development
Funding for guest lecturers, expert reviewers, the project pilot, and project dissemination was provided by the UW-Extension Cross Divisional Grant in 2005-06. Funding for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning module was provided by UW Sytem Office of Professional and Instrutional Development Conference Development Grant. Additional funding for design, production, and editing was provided by the
Office of Outreach and E-Learning Extension. The project was a collaboration between UW Learning Innovations (Outreach and E-Learning) and
Cooperative Extension Technology Services in cooperation with content providers and experts from many campuses in UW System.
The funding provided an opportunity to design, create, evaluate, and disseminate a portable training tool that promotes best practices in online teaching and learning. The completed training tool is housed as a course in the UWEX instance of Desire2Learn and will is available for distribution to instances of D2L within UW System.
Project Goals and Anticipated Outcomes
- Flexibility to empower faculty and staff developers to reuse and customize content or case studies based on training needs.
- Portability to ensure the tool is easily shared and used on other instances of D2L as well as a consistent file structure and content design.
- Usability to ensure ease of application and customization, including templates and models to encourage tool customization and expansion.
- Sustainability to allow the course to be reused and grown as best practices sharing efforts continue, and additional cases, learning objects, or content modules are developed and shared.
To meet these goals, we attempted to create a resource which is:
- A portable, customizable training tool for professional development of faculty and staff.
- A core source of training materials to be shared and reused for faculty and staff professional development.
- A means to add context and application of existing UW System learning objects and resources.
- A potential means for collecting and sharing best practice cases and other resources.
Acknowledgements
Collaborators:
- Molly Immendorf, UWEX Cooperative Extension Technology Services
- Kay Taube, UWEX Outreach and E-Learning
UWEX Outreach and E-Learning Staff:
- Penny Ralston-Berg, Instructional Designer and Project Manager
- Nicole Marcisz, Researcher and Instructional Designer
- Tom Culviner, Editor
Guest Lecturers and Content Authors:
- Susan Gallagher-Lepak, UW-Green Bay
- Molly Immendorf, UWEX Cooperative Extension
- Tracey Gladstone-Sovell, UW-River Falls
- Alice Anderson, UW-Madison
- Blaire Bundy, UW-Madison
- Kim Kostka, UW Colleges
- Kurt Squire, UW-Madison
- Dan Norton, Filament Games
- Renee Meyers, UW-Milwaukee
Expert Reviewers:
- Rosemary Lehman, UWEX Instructional Communications Sytems
- Ben Arbaugh, UW-Oshkosh
- Cheryl Banachowski-Fuller, UW-Platteville
- Pam Scheibel, UW-Madison
In addition:
We would also like to acknowledge Carole Turner (UW-Madison) and Donna Raleigh (UW-Eau Claire) who shared feedback on the resource structure and topics.