Overview

Dates:  August 2010-May 2011.

Beginning August  2010, continuing through  2012, eight faculty members from the Duke School of Nursing (DUSON) worked together with CIT staff to define and develop best practices and an online teaching guide on technology and pedagogy. The work of the Fellowship has been compiled and published as an online teaching guide for use in the School of Nursing, as well as otherDuke online programs.

Fellows Activities

  • A one-day orientation in July 2010 including consulting and discussing with Dr. Helen Connors on online education technologies, fundamental building blocks for a successful online program, best practices of managing large online classes;
  • Discussions of collaborative writing strategies to developing DUSON online education best practices guidelines using Blackboard wikis and blogs;
  • Discussions of social bookmarking tool Diigo focused on collecting and managing online resources;
  • Reflection of reading a book “The Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips” by Judith V. Boettcher and Rita-Marie Conrad;
  • Review and revision of  an evaluation rubric to measure quality in the graduate online curriculum, offering a useful tool for online course development;
  • Sharing each fellow’s best example of one of the online courses (on Blackboard, WordPress or Virtual World) to the whole group to understand the basic ‘architecture’ of the  online course  as thinking about models for developing new online courses;
  • Providing recommendations to update DUSON’s existing online learning expectations .

Fellows will meet monthly and receive a stipend of $1,000 for active participation in meetings and the completion of all agreed upon Fellowship activities.

Outcomes

Through the fellows program within one year, fellows expect to

  • Identify and review exiting literature and resources in online education and finally create a library of resources for sharing.
  • Assess and update the rubrics developed by previous CIT fellows in 2005.
  • Identify and experiment with effective communication activities in larger classes.
  • Contribute to the CIT’s public blog as CIT faculty guest bloggers.
  • Produce a reflection piece at the end of the Fellowship. The reflection would include information on challenges in developing an orientation guide for faculty teaching online and executing the guide, ideas for modifications to be made in future, and advice for other faculty on developing the skills and knowledge needed for success teaching online at Duke.
  • Present at CIT’s Showcase or other CIT event to share your experiences with other Duke faculty.

Participants

Blood-Siegfried, Jane- Associate Clinical Professor

Hawks, Sharon – Assistant Clinical Professor

Nevidjon, Brenda – Clinical Professor

Phillips, Beth – Assistant Clinical Professor

Short, Nancy – Associate Clinical Professor

Valiga, Terry – Clinical Professor

Vorderstrasse, Allison – Assistant Professor

Wood, Kathy – Assistant Professor