Session summary: presenters described a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) created with a 6-faculty Nursing Dept.
Main take-aways:
- programmatic development vs. course development — is this an even better idea as we’re trying to build collaborative communities of practice, increase adoption and ownership (buy-in), and use our resources more efficiently?
- sooner rather than later, we should gather student feedback on what they would like to see offered online, how it should be offered, and other questions to help us address their wants and needs
- we should seriously consider explicitly involving librarians in course development (and certainly in programmatic development) — in addition to finding resources, perhaps they could help with organization, media, and copyright clearance?
- best predictors of success seemed to be setting clear goals, creating a good timeline, having regular and relatively frequent check-ins, and working with goal-oriented community members
- could we fund programmatic development more easily? Grants? Professional development funds? Dept. budget? (I know, the only real possibility there is “Grants”
- idea that faculty didn’t want to “be students” and wanted, instead, to particpate in a collaborative community of learners — Faculty Learning Community > Learning Community — same consideration needed for students
Resources: Articulate, Center of Online Learning, Miami University, Beth Dietz-Uhler and Andrea Han
