The Relationship between Instructors, Academic Leaders, and Educational Developers in the Development of Online Teaching Capacity
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2017-12-18
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Online learning is expanding rapidly among higher education institutions; this requires faculty members to be prepared to teach in online environments. While some may have experience with online teaching and learning, others may feel the need to enroll in educational development programs to help them develop their competence and confidence in teaching online. Using an instrumental single case study approach, this research sought to understand the ways in which instructors from a professional faculty of a western Canadian university developed their capacity to teach online. The following question guided the inquiry: how does the relationship between instructors, academic leaders, and educational developers influence the process of online teaching capacity building in a professional faculty at a western Canadian university? Participants of this study included instructors and academic leaders of a professional faculty, and educational developers working at the university’s centre for educational development. Data were collected using interviews, surveys, and document analysis. Three key findings emerged from the analysis of the data: 1) how technological and pedagogical considerations affected online teaching and its capacity-building processes; 2) initiatives used by instructors to build their online teaching capacity, and 3) factors that influenced the processes for online teaching capacity building. These findings point to the need for synergetic relationships between online instructors, academic leaders, and educational developers for the development of online teaching capacity-building processes and practices that create the conditions for meaningful student learning.
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Educational Development, Online Teaching, Capacity Building
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da Rosa dos Santos, L. (2017). The Relationship between Instructors, Academic Leaders, and Educational Developers in the Development of Online Teaching Capacity (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.