Faculty Development

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Faculty Development

Blended Learning Implementation Guide

February 5, 2013

Digital Learning Now! (DLN) released "The Blended Learning Implementation Guide," the fifth DLN Smart Series paper, for leaders who are ready seize the opp…

Preparing the Masses for Yet Another LMS Migration: How BU Used a Crowdsourcing Concept to Train 4,000 Faculty and Thrived

March 12, 2013 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference

LMS migrations for an institution of any size can be a challenge when it comes to training. While there may never be "one size fits all" solution to any problem, at Boston University we f…

Penetrating the Fog: Analytics in Learning and Education

September 12, 2011

George Siemens ( gsiemens@gmail.com ) is with the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at Athabasca University. Phil Long ( longpd@uq.edu.au ) is a Professor in the Schools of …

Certification in Technology Integration in the Classroom

March 15, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2011

The Foreign Language Technology Program (FLTP) is a nondegree program offering training in the theories and practices of instructional technologies. It gives language teachers an opportunity to acq…

Engaging the Doctoral Learning Community with Videoconferencing

September 22, 2010

Key Takeaways Faced with the economic effects of the recession, Union Institute & University asked its departments to consider ways to ease the financial burden on their learners and th…

Using Instructional Design to Shape Technology Training

October 30, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

Technology training for faculty and staff is more effective when it is based on instructional design principles. This presentation will show how three principles were used to guide training efforts…

Wikis and Emergent Roles for Teaching and Learning

April 1, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2008

Institutions increasingly encourage students to take an active role in their own learning. Wikis can facilitate this process by offering many ways for faculty and students to collaborate and create…

Podcast IT: Preparing Faculty for Academic Podcasting

January 23, 2007 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2007

The University of Tennessee's "Podsquad" will demonstrate one path to a successful academic podcasting initiative, including the process of faculty development and creating a homegro…

So You Want to Switch Course Management Systems? We Have! Come Find Out What We've Learned

February 22, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2006

The University of Oklahoma recently implemented Desire2Learn as a replacement for the Blackboard Learning System as our primary course management system. The project was a successful collaboration …

Training Mainstream Faculty to Use Course Management Systems

January 1, 2003

Three universities with high faculty participation in using course management systems will present strategies for meeting the challenges of training mainstream faculty. These strategies are all tim…