7:30am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee

9:00am – 9:30am Introductions and Welcome

9:30am – 10:20am Proactive & Reactive Faculty Support
Speakers:
Gail McKenna, Senior Director of Instructional Design and Faculty Support, American Women's College, Bay Path University
Mary Wiseman, Online Course Builder, Bay Path University

This session will explore the challenges we all face supporting faculty developing, building, and delivering online courses. The presentation will include discussion around finding balance in the multi-faceted approach to proactive and reactive support methods. We will identify and discuss strategies used at Bay Path University with both our undergraduate and graduate online courses & faculty. Participants will work in small groups to brainstorm more solutions. Participants should expect to leave the session with ideas for bringing balance to support provision rather than being controlled by it.

10:20am - 10:30am Break

10:30am – 11:20am Redesigning Through Universal Design
Speakers:
Lance Eaton, Coordinator of Instructional Design, North Shore Community College
Andrea Milligan, Director of Instructional Technology and Design, North Shore Community College

This session will explore how to have conversations with faculty about the pedagogical and legal importance of universal design and leverage it as a means of opening dialogue about course redesign and the most recent best practices for online learning. The presentation will include identifying some of the strategies and resources used at North Shore Community College as well as engaging the audience with how they use universal design with their online faculty.

11:20am – 11:45am Small Facilitated Group Discussions

11:45am - 12:45pm Lunch

12:50pm – 1:40pm Session III - Here's What An Online Faculty Community Looks Like
Speaker: Gerol Petruzella Ph.D., Assistant Director of Academic Technology, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

A functional, robust support environment for online faculty should share many features with an online classroom: accessible and active communication channels; content which is contextualized in a broader community; opportunities for exploring, testing, and contributing to the shared body of knowledge. This presentation will demonstrate the design and communication strategies MCLA used to build an Online Teaching Certification space for a cohort of online faculty, as well as the resources, activities, and faculty responses to the course.

1:40pm – 1:50pm Break

1:50pm – 2:40pm Session IV - Instructor as Instructional Designer: A 360° Approach to Online Faculty Development
Speaker: Brian Salerno, MS, Director of Online Learning & Assessment
Graduate Professional Studies, Brandeis University

This session will provide an overview of the strategic faculty development and training program developed by Brandeis University's Division of Graduate Professional Studies as a result of a transition to a fully-online model for each of the divisions master's degree programs starting in 2006. Session participants will discover how Brandeis GPS developed a successful and scalable 360° approach to training and faculty development in an environment with limited instructional design support. This model takes instructors through initial exposure to online course development concepts, continuous course improvement, introduction to emerging tools and technologies, and evaluation of course effectiveness. Participants will learn about Brandeis GPS intensive training program on online pedagogy, course design, and technology, the division's standardized approach to course development, robust webinar and workshop series, course re-development initiatives, and other faculty development opportunities offered at a distance. Session participants will be asked to engage in a discussion of the benefits and limitations of such a model, and will be asked to identify elements of the model that can be adapted for use within their own institutions.

2:40pm – 3:00pm Wrap Up Discussions and Reflection

3:00pm End