Becoming a Manager with Influence in Online Education: Strategies to Increase Your Impact

August 9, 2011 - 8:05pm | by Anonymous
Presenter(s)
Christina Sax (Shippensburg University, US)
Marie Cini (University of Maryland University College, US)
Session Information
November 11, 2011 - 11:25am
Track: 
Leadership, Values and Society
Areas of Special Interest: 
Institutional Initiatives; Practical Application
Institutional Level: 
Universities and Four Year Institutions
Audience Level: 
Intermediate
Session Type: 
Information Session
Location: 
Asia 2
Session Duration: 
35 Minutes
Concurrent Session: 
12
Virtual Session
Abstract

Do you aspire to leadership roles or wish you had more impact in online education? This workshop will help you work on practical problems and initiatives, and develop a broader impact at your institution by becoming a "manager with influence."

Extended Abstract

The goal of this session is to provide participants with strategies designed to build stronger relationships with colleagues, to become a more effective partner, and to have a broader impact on moving the institution's strategic online teaching and learning vision forward. This session will be of special interest to those who want to have a broader impact particularly in relation to online teaching and learning. This session will encourage managers to develop a more enriched cognitive map of their role and place within the University, encouraging them to see the whole and not just their part, and to become a "master manager" akin to a "master teacher." As a result of this session participantants will: 1) gain strategies for cultivating an "impact reputation" at their institution, and 2) develop a plan for increasing their impact, solving a particular problem, and/or effecting change at their institution.

Lead Presenter

Christina Sax is the Associate Provost and Dean of Academic Outreach and Innovation at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania (2007-date). Among her responsibilities are distance education policies, practices, faculty support, and administration. She served in a number of administrative roles at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC; 1998-2007), where she had direct responsibilities for online course quality assurance and student learning outcomes assessment, online program and course development, and the hiring, staffing, training, and oversight of online faculty. She has taught online for UMUC since 1997, having authored seven online biology courses, two of which received the UPCEA Mid-Atlantic Region's Program of Excellence Award, and was named Distance Educator of the Year by the Maryland Distance Learning Association (MDLA). Chris served as co-director of the FIPSE-funded Quality Matters grant project (2003-2006), which focused on developing a national process and rubric for the inter-institutional quality assurance of online courses. She has served two terms as Vice President of MDLA, and is currently serving on the Board of the UPCEA Mid-Atlantic Region. She holds a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in Genetics from the Medical College of Virginia, and has completed the Leadership Development Program of the Center for Creative Leadership and the National Leadership Forum of the American Council of Education's Office of Women in Higher Education.

Presenter 1 Email: 
csax@ship.edu