Managing Online Instructor Workload E-Book

Simone C. O. Conceição

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Serie: Online Teaching and Learning Series (OTL)
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 185

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Managing Online Instructor Workload is a groundbreaking book that offers strategies, advice, illustrative examples, and a four-step process for identifying challenges and rethinking, prioritizing, managing, and balancing one's online instruction workload.

Based on surveys and interviews with successful online instructors, the book is filled with timely and comprehensive insight that is essential for online instructors, instructional designers, faculty developers, and anyone who wants to succeed in online learning.

Praise for Managing Online Instructor Workload

"Managing Online Instructor Workload breaks the pattern of prior distance learning books with its research-based orientation by including a broad range of experience. This is a valuable resource to encourage greater faculty persistence and adoption."—Kathleen P. King, professor of higher education, University of South Florida, Tampa

"This is a must-read for all online instructors who strive not only to provide a high-quality learning experience for their students but also maintain a quality life of their own!"—Rita-Marie Conrad, online educator and author

"Do you teach online? Do you need sleep? Here is the first book that I know of that will allow you to do both?no more endless hours wasted online attempting to be an effective instructor."—Curtis J. Bonk, professor, Indiana University

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

List of Tables and Figures

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 Management Strategy

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 Multiple Institutions

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 of Life

Design Strategies

Support Strategies

Teaching Strategies

Time Allocation Strategies

Summary

Six: Final Thoughts and Practical Implications for Balancing Workload

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

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Conceição, Simone C.O., 1963–

Managing online instructor workload : strategies for finding balance and success / Simone C.O. Conceição, Rosemary M. Lehman.—1st ed.

p. cm.—(Jossey-Bass guides to online teaching and learning; 33)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-88842-1 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-1-118-07552-4 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-07553-1 (ebk);

ISBN 978-1-118-07555-5 (ebk)

1. Distance education—Computer-assisted instruction. 2. Teachers—Workload. I. Lehman, Rosemary M., 1932– II. Title.

LC5803.C65C66 2011

371.33'4—dc22

2011012503

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

TABLES

1.1Institutional Issues and Challenges in Online Teaching1.2Instructional Issues and Challenges in Online Teaching2.1Summary of Instructors’ Stories for Balancing Workload3.1Summary of Course Sequence, Types of Tasks, and Task Descriptions3.2Methods for Creating a Course Blueprint3.3Template for Managing Tasks and Prioritizing Time4.1Design Elements for a New Online Course4.2Design Tasks for Building a New Online Course4.3Managing Tasks and Prioritizing Time for a New Online Course4.4Design Elements for a Converted Online Course4.5Managing Tasks and Prioritizing Time for a Converted Online Course4.6Design Elements for an Existing Online Course4.7Managing Tasks and Prioritizing Time for an Existing Online Course5.1Strategies for Balancing Instructor Workload6.1Rethinking Process for Prioritizing Time and Managing Workload

FIGURES

3.1Framework for Designing Online Courses with a Sense of Presence

PREFACE

The landscape of higher education is being transformed due to market demands for online learning (Allen & Seaman, 2008). This requires that institutions embrace the concept of online education, acknowledge its benefits and limitations, and act upon it to remain competitive. Today online education is a reality. Its benefits have an impact on institutional growth, and its limitations affect instructor workload. Instructors feel pressured to move their courses online, lack an awareness of what is involved in online instruction, and are unprepared to teach in the online environment. For these reasons, it is evident that administrators and instructors need to take action at the institutional and instructional levels to overcome these limitations.