The Online Teaching Persona, Philosophy and Strategies to Support Your Online Style

Presenter(s)
William Phillips (University of Central Florida, US)
George Bradford (University of South Australia, AU)
Session Information
November 9, 2011 - 2:15pm
Track: 
Faculty and Professional Development and Support
Areas of Special Interest: 
Practical Application
Institutional Level: 
Universities and Four Year Institutions
Audience Level: 
All
Session Type: 
Information Session
Location: 
America's Seminar
Session Duration: 
35 Minutes
Concurrent Session: 
4
Abstract

This presentation will guide you through the discovery and development of your online teaching persona, then operationalize the tools and strategies to effectively support your individual style, while maintaining integrity alongside your online teaching (and learning) philosophy. Take away the complete exercise to facilitate these strategies.

Extended Abstract

Teaching online is vastly different from teaching a comparable face-to-face class, even though this comparison is often made. The unique characteristics of teaching online require different approaches, tools, communication and techniques. Today's literature highlights many best practices and teaching strategies, including case studies illustrating successful examples. However, each online class offers such unique characteristics that it is difficult to produce one model illustrating all online classrooms. This presentation will guide you through the discovery and development process of your online teaching persona, and attempt to operationalize the various tools and strategies you might utilize to effectively support your individual style, while maintaining integrity with your teaching (and learning) philosophy. You will find this to be a unique, innovative faculty development approach to promote instructor presence in an online course. The session will be of particular interest to online teaching faculty, instructional designers and others with varied levels of experience. Those delivering online and face-to-face faculty development will be extremely interested in attending. The take away will be an exercise that could take up to two hours to fully develop and operationalize these factors in your online course. Those attending will be asked to volunteer their ideas to support the materials being presented and bolster online teaching presence.

Final Presentation: 
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Lead Presenter

William O. (Bill) Phillips is an Instructional Designer for Course Development and Web Services at the University of Central Florida (UCF) where he has been a faculty member since 2000. He earned an Ed. D. from UCF specializing in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on the online teaching persona. Bill holds a BA in Communication from the University of South Florida (USF) and MA from UCF in Instructional Systems Design. Bill has extensive experience in online teaching and learning and has developed over four hundred online courses. He facilitates online faculty at UCF.

Presenter 1 Email: 
bphillip@mail.ucf.edu