Gail Weatherly wrote:
Dear Certified Online Instructors:
As you know, the training for becoming a Certified Online
Instructor requires the completion of an online course known
as Web Course
Design Community. One of the course requirements for those
participating in the course is to interview a veteran Certified Online
Instructor who has developed and/or taught an online course at
SFA.
Would you be willing to grant a 30-45 minute interview to a
faculty member who is involved in the Course Design Community
course in February 2009? This exercise is designed to allow the
novice course developer an opportunity to gain insight about the development
and/or delivery of an online course by asking questions of an instructor
who has taught online, and then reflect on that new
knowledge. This experience has a positive impact on
trainees' overall experience not only in the Course Design Community
course, but also on development of their new online
courses, as well.
The Course Design
Community course begins with a face-to-face orientation which
allows each of the trainees to select the name of a veteran online
instructor to interview. Then, each of the trainees will be expected
to contact the veteran instructor and conduct an interview.
If you
agree to be interviewed, you will be contacted by only one training faculty
member; duplicates will not be
allowed. And, depending on the number of faculty in
training, you may not be contacted in the spring but may be contacted in the
summer, instead.
Please reply to this
email and indicate your response by placing an X beside one of the
choices below.
_____YES, I will grant a short
(30-45 minute) interview to a training faculty
member
_____NO, I prefer not to
grant an interview
Thank you for your consideration of this request.
Your collective knowledge of online teaching is something that should be
shared and reflected upon by those who are planning to develop and deliver
an online course. Please reply to me at gweatherly@sfasu.edu, or telephone me at
1818 if you want more information about this request.
Sincerely,
Gail
M.
Gail Weatherly, Ph.D.
Distance
Education Coordinator
Office
of Instructional Technology
905
E. Library Drive, Steen Library
P.O.
Box 13038
Stephen
F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches,
TX 75962
Phone:
936-468-1818 | Fax: 936-468-7231
gweatherly@sfasu.edu