2023 Presentations (Communicative Events)

Recruiting, Training, and Engaging Online Faculty via an Award-Winning Virtual Institute -- #USDLA

Marquart, Matthea S.; Marshall, Lia W.; Ryan, Delia E.

These are the slides from a webinar for the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA).

Webinar description:
At Columbia University's School of Social Work, instructors who teach with the online campus pass a 5-week Institute on Pedagogy and Technology for Online Courses. Launched in 2017, this is a fully virtual professional development training that includes five live class sessions and about 15 hours of homework. Over 400 educators have passed in the first nine cohorts, earning a digital badge. This presentation will share the details of this institute, and how CSSW's online campus uses it to recruit, train, and engage online faculty.

This institute was recognized by USDLA with an International Award for Excellence in Training in 2019. It has also been recognized with four other awards: International E-Learning Award (IELA, 2018), Faculty and Staff Development Award (UPCEA Mid-Atlantic, 2019), Learning in Practice Award for Business Impact (Chief Learning Officer Magazine, 2020), and Outstanding Program Award: Noncredit (UPCEA, 2023).

To learn more about this institute:
*** An article in the Journal of Teaching in Social Work (October 2019): Developing and Supporting Faculty Training for Online Social Work Education: The Columbia University School of Social Work Online Pedagogy Institute. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2019.1653419
*** A United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) blog post about the Institute, by Valary Oleinik (August 2019): The best teachers are also amazing learners. https://usdla.org/blog/2019/08/21/the-best-teachers-are-also-amazing-learners/
*** A blog post by a past participant in the Institute, Laurel Hitchcock (November 2019): Reflections from the Summer 2019 Institute on Pedagogy and Technology for Online Courses. https://www.laureliversonhitchcock.org/2019/11/19/reflections-from-the-summer-2019-institute-on-pedagogy-and-technology-for-online-courses/