Digital Professor Redesign Provides Streamlined Online Experience for Faculty
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Thursday, August 27, 2020
A Message from Geni Wright, Director, Online Teaching and Learning
In early spring, experienced Digital Professor faculty facilitators met to discuss the alignment of the Digital Professor curriculum to the Rubric for Online Competencies (ROC). The team was in the early stages of determining the redesign phases of courses to model ROC criteria. Thankfully, this information helped guide a design team in reimagining the Digital Professor experience.
The Digital Professor redesign provided a streamlined online experience for faculty to complete 20 hours of professional development in the areas of pedagogy, student engagement, and technology in online teaching and learning. Digital Professor cohorts were facilitated by experienced online faculty and faculty developers/instructional designers.
Faculty shared feedback on their experience. Here are some of the responses received:
“Great experience. Learned a lot about improving the student learning experience in the online environment.”
“It was a great experience. The course was very well organized with very clear instructions. Thanks for a great learning experience!”
“I know I will have a much better semester in the fall in regards to giving my students a much better experience.”
“I really enjoyed this course! I learned a great deal that I can incorporate into my online courses.”
During this summer alone, we had 688 faculty members successfully complete Digital Professor Certification, including 565 part-time/annually appointed faculty and 123 tenured/tenure-track faculty.
For a complete list of all our distinguished Digital Professors, click below:
We would like to thank our Digital Professor facilitator team:
- Kristin Bartholomew, professor, nutrition
- Aaron Bergeson, faculty developer/instructional designer
- Kevin Colwell, faculty developer, instructional designer
- Amy Comerford, professor, mathematics
- Kathryn Cunningham, faculty developer/instructional designer
- Rick Dexter, professor, biology
- Aida Diaz, professor, Spanish
- Johnie Forsythe, teaching math coordinator
- Edie Gaythwaite, professor, speech
- Al Groccia, professor, mathematics
- Mahendra Gossai, professor, computer programming and analysis
- Susan Gosnell, professor, radiologic and imaging sciences
- Rowena Hymer, faculty developer/instructional designer
- Erin O’Brien Grogan, professor, English
- Chinyere James, faculty developer, instructional designer
- Lauren Kelley, faculty developer/instructional designer
- Amanda Kern, professor, graphic design
- Gary Kokaisel, faculty developer/instructional designer
- Hunter Looney, faculty developer/instructional designer
- Brian Macon, professor, mathematics
Fall Digital Professor Certification Cohorts
If you are interested in completing your Digital Professor Certification, submit the Fall Digital Professor Survey to select and enroll in Cohort 2:
Cohort 2
- Monday, September 28 – Monday, October 12, 2020, for Canvas Essentials (10 PD)
- Monday, October 19 – Monday, December 7, 2020, for Digital Professor (20 PD)
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