{"id":68581,"date":"2019-10-23T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T13:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=68581"},"modified":"2019-10-23T09:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T13:39:15","slug":"conscious-onboarding-10-ways-to-support-new-online-instructors-from-evolllution-com-by-rebecca-cooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/10\/23\/conscious-onboarding-10-ways-to-support-new-online-instructors-from-evolllution-com-by-rebecca-cooney\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscious onboarding: 10 ways to support new online instructors &#8212; from evolllution.com by Rebecca Cooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evolllution.com\/programming\/teaching-and-learning\/conscious-onboarding-10-ways-to-support-new-online-instructors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Conscious onboarding: 10 ways to support new online instructors<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from evolllution.com by Rebecca Cooney<br \/>\n<em>In the scramble of expanding online programs, colleges often neglect to establish a formal onboarding process to address the unique challenges of online instruction\u2014putting faculty confidence and retention at risk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>#1: Establish an Online Community of Practice Devoted to Faculty Teaching Online Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When executed well, a culture of community establishes a set of shared values and expectations that influence how a group interacts, functions, and collaborates. By developing a specific online community of practice for your instructors teaching online courses, you provide them with a real-time information hub they can refer to for topics and materials that directly impact the work they are doing every day. An online community of practice includes announcements and discussions, a shared files system, FAQs and how-to\u2019s, templates, databanks for approved-to-use lecture slides, recorded lectures, tutorials, standard syllabus language, approved digital assets and rubrics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.ed.gov\/designing-online-communities-of-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Learn more<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and download a report about exploratory research in the value of developing online communities of practice. (Office of Educational Technology, n.d.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conscious onboarding: 10 ways to support new online instructors &#8212; from evolllution.com by Rebecca Cooney In the scramble of expanding online programs, colleges often neglect to establish a formal onboarding process to address the unique challenges of online instruction\u2014putting faculty confidence and retention at risk. 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