Leading Faculty Through a Paradigm Shift: Creating and Sustaining a Needs-Based Approach to e-Learning Faculty Development Programs

Abstract

e-Learning leaders have a responsibility to train faculty to produce-quality online and blended courses. To foster this mandate, this chapter provides e-learning leaders with a framework for faculty development. Specifically, this chapter includes material that reinforces the importance of recruiting qualified e-learning instructors and supporting e-learning faculty in an effort to produce courses that resound with sound pedagogy and high-quality instructional strategy. This chapter also explores e-learning issues and concerns as indicated by faculty and provides answers to common faculty questions. Finally, this chapter will provide a roadmap for the entire e-learning faculty development process: from recruiting faculty participants to designing e-learning faculty development curricula and, finally, assessing the effectiveness of e-learning faculty development initiatives.