Transforming Science Instruction: Development of a Blended Faculty Training Program

With funds provided by Hispanic Serving Institutions Title V Program, the College of Sciences at Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico has developed a training program for faculty. This program aims to train in new technological tools that allow the incorporation of innovative strategies and methods to enhance curricula in face to face, online and blended science courses. The faculty training involves face to face workshops with online materials that include online discussion forums for the development of an effective learning community. The issues presented in this first stage of training were: Web 2.0, Moodle, Edu 2.0, Google Apps. Blogs and screencasting. The faculty's perceptions of methods used in training, including Interest and willingness to adopt the tools to support and supplement classroom instruction will be presented.