| Are schools offering a broad spectrum of fully online courses to only partially online courses? |
| Suggestions for convincing administration not to wait for every teacher to participate in order to move in this direction? |
| Online learning requires instructors to be "present" in hours other than the normal school day. This certainly adds stress to teachers who are already trying to balance a home life with a work life. What measures have you taken in your schools to help keep online instructors sane and functional, especially when their daily load of courses -- including hybrid courses -- remain part of their teaching portfolios? |
| What are best practices when deploying an online program? |
| Our school requires that students take at least five major academic courses each semester. How are other schools handling this? Should an online course count as one of the five? |
| How can we get teachers interested in want to integrate technology in their instructions? |
| How is crediting of courses is handled? |
| Our school is a very traditional bricks-and-mortar school with a lot of course offerings and the flexibility to adapt and the resources to hire enough teachers to have further and newer offerings over time. How important is online learning in such an environment? And how does one have the conversation amongst the faculty about this topic? |
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The NAIS resources answers this statistically, but I have seen more blended courses offered by a school within the whole spectrum including fully online for credit.
ReplyDeleteI am believer in the beta or pilot approach. It creates buy-in and excitement with some teachers and allows the critics to wait and see. But the 60-20-20 rule will always mean that any mandatory program will drag 20% along unwillingly. A gentler way is to let teachers take online courses in areas they want--the experience prepares them well for teaching online.
We are partnering with other schools thorough GOA, and only have a few faculty and students directly involved. We have also had students take courses from colleges online if they have exhausted our curriculum. And we have many teachers beginning to and fully using blended strategies in the classroom.
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