This presentation walks through professional development opportunities for those looking to teach online and hybrid courses.

1. Professional Development for Teaching Online
and Hybrid Courses in Higher Education
Dr. Kristin Palmer
January 2020
IAFOR International Conference on Education (IICE 2020)
Submission # 54175 Sunday Session II: 11:35-12:50

2. The Problem
All institutions want their faculty to have confidence going into a
classroom to teach their subject, whether face to face classes, hybrid
classes that are partially online, or fully online classes.
How can institutions support their faculty to be effective and
independent in the classroom teaching hybrid and online
courses?

3. Abstract
This talk will walk through the suite of professional development opportunities available
to faculty for teaching online at the University of Virginia (UVA). There is a range of
options from self-service, just-in-time summary sheets to immersive cohort based
residential workshops. I will illustrate the resources that have been developed which
include: Screencasting 101, Accessibility 101, and Converting Your Course to be
Online. I will also walk through the self-paced six-week online course that is available
for teaching faculty best practices for teaching online. I will walk through the syllabus
and materials for our face-to-face residential workshop called the Course Design
Institute. Finally, I will discuss the idea of having a selective teaching fellows program
which is based on available, free content but is delivered to a cohort over an academic
year with high perceived value for faculty..

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University Profile
• Established 1819 by Thomas Jefferson
• Public, Research Focus
• Located in Charlottesville, VA
• UNESCO World Heritage Site
• 13 Schools (Medicine, Law, Business)
• 2,100+ Academic Staff and 24,000+
Students

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Online at UVA
• 17 Degree Programs
• 18 Certificate Programs
• 250+ Courses
• 43 MOOCs, 2.7 MOOC Learners
• 10x Growth in Online in some Schools
• http://online.virginia.edu

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Certificates
Institute
Conferences
Workshops
Pop Up Support
Self-Serve Toolkits
Professional Development
TimeCommitment

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Self Serve
Single page cheat sheets for best practices hosted on
our Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) website.
Promoted in quarterly newsletters to faculty.
Q4 2019 had 1,162 page views and 419 downloads.

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Book Clubs
Offering quarterly book club with monthly Zoom calls in
coordination with other regional universities with the
author attending the last meeting.

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Quarterly Workshops
Quarterly UVA Acts performances that roll play
scenarios in class and have faculty working together to
understand and improve the student and faculty
experience.

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Conferences
Teaching and Learning with Technology conference held in
October and Innovation in Pedagogy Summit held in May each
year. These events attract hundreds of faculty and staff and
highlight faculty and student experiences with well known guest
keynote speakers.

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Course Design Institute
Annual weeklong intensive with 50 faculty to redesign their
syllabus. Great for team building, establishing learning objectives,
and aligning assignments and content to learning objectives..

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Course Design Institute
Annual weeklong intensive with 50 faculty to redesign their
syllabus. Great for team building, establishing learning objectives,
and aligning assignments and content to learning objectives..

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Certifications

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Additional Resources

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Additional Resources

17. Thank You
Dr. Kristin Palmer
Kristin@virginia.edu