UTC ONLINE FACULTY FELLOWS PROGRAM
Funded by the University of Chattanooga Foundation and UTC Walker Teaching Resource Center
The Online Faculty Fellows Program encourages the development of faculty experts in a variety of teaching, learning and technology topics and issues. Faculty Fellows serve as models to other UTC faculty on the use of effective teaching and learning strategies in online learning environments.
For more information, please contact Jennifer T. Ellis (Jennifer-T-Ellis@utc.edu or 423-425-5677), Senior Instructional Developer in the Walker Teaching Resource Center.
Project Goal:
The main goal of the training program is to train faculty in best practices for online teaching and learning, to design and develop high quality online courses as a part of the experience, including the production on digital content to teach those courses online. The project provides one time funding for faculty to participate in the training and design of appropriate materials.
The maximum payment faculty can receive is $4,000 for the participation in the training sessions and to complete the design and development of one course and its related materials. Payment can be made either as a course release or as extra service pay or a combination of both over the year long project.
Overall, the program is designed to help selected faculty to:
- Broaden research and knowledge skills into the area of scholarship of teaching an online teaching and learning,
- Develop skills in instructional and curriculum design,
- Develop skills with software tools to design meaningful integration of technology into the online classroom,
- Provide support for activities in the Walker Teaching Resource Center, and
- Serve as visible and exemplary models of teaching and technology integration in the curriculum.
Fellows will receive training in the following areas:
- Instructional design and sequence of design
- Using Blackboard efficiently and effectively
- Effective technology integration
- Including audio in online presentations
- Podcast techniques
- Audio recording processing
- Creating/editing images and videos
- Creating pdf documents
- Effective use of web links
Fellows selected for the project will be required to:
- Actively participate in the faculty development and training sessions offered by the Walker Teaching Resource Center held throughout the year
- Identify, select, and design course materials for an approved general education course
- Evaluate course materials that might be used for course delivery
- Identify materials that need copyright clearance for use
- Identify teaching strategies for online content
- Identify and create assessment mechanisms for related instructional objectives
- Identify and produce assessment tools and grading rubrics, as necessary
- Design and produce teaching and implementation manuals for using the materials found, developed, and incorporated
- Identify and evaluate generic modules needed for faculty and student support
- Revise course modules as indicated through peer review, assessment and evaluation
- Actively participate in the peer review process for online courses
- Suggest revisions to faculty development training, etc. for the training of faculty to teach online
Project Schedule:
The faculty development program begins with a totally online experience that spans six weeks. This program allows you to see what it feels like to be an online student and to also experience several Blackboard features that you might be unfamiliar with. Even if you are out of town, you'll be able to access and participate in the class as it is offered totally online. The time required for each participant is about 2-3 hours per week.
After the online experience, the Online Faculty Fellows will receive specific training on best practices for teaching online and how to create their own online courses. The faculty training will be delivered in a hybrid fashion (face-to-face and online) and the fellows and Walker Teaching Resource Center personnel will collaborate to create a schedule that is appropriate for the specific needs of the selected faculty group.
Program deliverable to receive payment:
- Complete the TRC Online Experience for Faculty course to be held Fall 2010 and attend all other required training sessions scheduled during the academic year ($250 stipend upon completion of the online course; $250 for attending the required training sessions)*.
- Completed syllabus and course schedule, and draft of content modules to teach course objectives (storyboards, pre-production, production plans, etc.), and at least one fully developed unit. Specific checkpoints will be developed by the faculty as a part of the face-to-face and online training sessions ($1000 stipend upon completion and delivery of the fully developed unit).
- Design the course and course materials, including all of the instructional modules necessary for the entire course. ($1,000 stipend upon completion and delivery. Specific checkpoints will be developed by the faculty as a part of the faculty development training sessions.
- Manual related to use and implementation of the instructional materials developed, all assessments, evaluations and related grading rubrics, suggested revisions and edits completed to reviewed materials; course built in UTC Online/Blackboard and exported to a zip file format ($500 stipend upon completion and delivery of the rubrics). Specific deadlines will be developed by the faculty as a part of the faculty development training sessions.
- Revise course modules as indicated through assessment and evaluation (self and peer) ($1000 stipend upon completion of completed course).
Both UTC and the faculty will own equally all electronic materials developed for the class as developed as a part of this project. This ownership gives you the right to update, edit and revise the instructional materials and modules developed. By co-owning, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga also has the right to revise, edit, update and distribute the instructional modules and materials in courses offered online at any time in the future. In addition, you shall not distribute, sell, license or lease the course materials developed to third parties or permit the use, advertisement or promotion of course materials with the University's name, logo, or other identifier by third parties, in a manner that might constitute a conflict of interest with the University, unless such action has been approved by the chief academic officer.
Past & Current Online Faculty Fellows
- Deborah Arfken, Political Science, Public Administration & Nonprofit Management
- Stephanie Bellar, Political Science, Public Administration & Nonprofit Management
- Thomas Balázs, English
- Janetta Bradley, Teacher Preparation Academy
- Vic Bumphus, Criminal Justice and Legal Assistant Studies
- Kay Cowan, Teacher Preparation Academy
- Beth Dodd, Continuing Education & Adjunct Professor
- David Edwards, Political Science, Public Administration & Nonprofit Management
- Helen Eigenberg, Criminal Justice and Legal Assistant Studies
- John Freeman, Graduate Studies Division
- Tammy Garland, Criminal Justice and Legal Assistant Studies
- Pam Guess, Graduate Studies Division
- Ann Holmes, Geology
- Chris Hensley, Criminal Justice and Legal Assistant Studies
- Christopher Horne, Political Science, Public Administration & Nonprofit Management
- Gale Iles, Criminal Justice and Legal Assistant Studies
- Lauren Ingraham, English
- Linda Johnston, Teacher Preparation Academy
- Sharon Redhawk Love, Criminal Justice and Legal Assistant Studies
- Sara Knox, Criminal Justice and Legal Assistant Studies
- Deborah McAllister, Teacher Preparation Academy
- Karen McGuffee, Criminal Justice and Legal Assistant Studies
- Seong Min Park, Criminal Justice and Legal Assistant Studies
- M.D. Robyler, Graduate Studies Division
- Paul Shurtz, Music
- Roger Thompson, Criminal Justice and Legal Assistant Studies
- Gavin Townsend, Art
- Talia Welsh, Philosophy & Religion
- Kristin Whitson, Physics & Astronomy
* Stipends for 12 month faculty will be negotiated.
Last modified: February 7, 2011
