Avoiding Burnout: A Plan for Online Faculty

Track: 
Administrative
Level: 
Level 2 - Intermediate
Sloan-C Certificate Program Eligibility: 

This online workshop can be counted toward the Sloan-C Certificate.

Workshop Description
Introduction: 

Formerly titled: Avoiding Online Faculty Burnout

 

Are you always on the computer? Are you regularly revising your courses? Do you have a 24/7-access mentality? You could be headed towards burnout.  As more institutions are offering ongoing degree programs online, burnout increasingly is a concern for faculty, administrators, and instructional designers. Compared to traditional faculty, online teachers tend to spend more time preparing, assessing and teaching their courses. This workshop explores the issue of academic management in online learning and ways to incorporate online teaching into normal academic life. In addition to learning skills to avoid burnout that derives from multiple sources, participants will be encouraged to share their own institutional practices as part of the conversation.

Resources Provided: 
  • Presentations, readings, web links, discussion threads and other materials, viewable online for 1 year
    1-Hour Live Workshop Orientation - Learn about Moodle 2.2 and BlackBoard Collaborate. Navigate the workshop space
  • 1-Hour Live Panel Discussion - Participation in Live Q&A
  • Viewing of Live Sessions available for 1 year
Learning Objectives: 
  • Identify strategies for better time management for online teaching
  • Understand exemplary techniques for administrating large online student groups
  • Learn what teaching practices are working for online professors at other institutions
Outcomes: 

Prepare a multiple To-Do task list for a period of time in your work life, breaking down into actionable items with clear start and end times

Facilitators
Facilitator(s): 

Dr. John D. Moore

Dr. John D. Moore has deep experience in higher education. A Counselor/Educator, Moore is Professor of Health Sciences at American Public University and acts as a training consultant with a number of learning institutions and corporations. For nearly two decades, Moore has been involved with online learning as both learner and educator. 

In addition to his teaching work, Dr. Moore is therapist and is CEO of 2nd Story Consultants, a Chicago Based Counseling and Training Firm.

 

Prior to Moore's work mental health & education, he worked in the corporate  sector in marketing and management roles. Some of the organizations he has been affilliated with include the IBM, Verizon, American Airlines and the American Bar Association. 

Graduating with honors, Dr. Moore received his PhD in Human Psychology from the School of Behavioral Science at Northcentral University. Additionally, he holds a MBA from the School of Business at Indiana Tech and a Certificate in Strategic Leadership from Cornell. Moore received several awards for online course instruction, including the "Excellence in Teaching & Learning" Medallion from the American Public University System.

He is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, a Board Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor and Approved Clinical Supervisor.

He holds memberships in the American Counseling Association, Illinois Counseling Association, National Career Counselor Association and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES). He is author of the popular book, Confusing Love with Obsession (Hazelden).

A native of Chicago, he lives on the city's North Side.

 

Professional Work

 

Long Term Deployments and Stress
American Army Association, 2006

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Combat Zones
Association of the U.S. Air Force, 2007

Counseling Armed Forces Members In Combat Zones
Sloan Institute, 2008.

Confusing Love with Obsession
Hazelden Books, 2006

Pricing and Cancellation Policy

Price: $345 Each
Sloan-C Member price: $195 w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
College Pass Member Pricing: No Cost w/coupon code* (you will enter the coupon code on the payment page of your shopping cart process)
*Members receive unlimited discounts with membership and College Pass holders receive 100 (50 or 25) "free" seats in the entire Sloan-C Workshop series.

Cancellation Policy: 

If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop and are unable to attend or if Sloan-C reschedules/cancels a workshop, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.

Technical Requirements/Minimum System Requirements

Combining the capabilities of industry leaders Wimba and Elluminate, Blackboard Collaborate provides a comprehensive learning platform designed specifically for education. It is helping thousands of higher education, K-12, professional, corporate, and government organizations worldwide deliver a more effective learning experience through online, blended, and mobile learning.

System Requirements:

  • Click here to check the system requirements and support browsers for using Elluminate
  • Click here to find out if your computer has the right Operating System and Java version installed to run Elluminate and to configure your system.

     

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Moodle:
Sloan-C uses an open-source LMS called Moodle for the asynchronous component of workshops. Moodle provides a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools. As with most open-source technologies, the Moodle software is free, making it a very cost-effective software package for any institution or company, without sacrificing quality. Moodle is a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.

System Requirements

Moodle will work in any modern web browser, however, moodle works best in a range of specific browser types (see below). Your browser should also have both cookies and javascript enabled. These are typically enabled by default, but if you think these settings might need enabling, check the documentation for your particular browser for how to do these.

To make best use of what moodle has to offer, it is recommended that users choose a browser that supports moodle's in-line HTML editor. This is a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor with an interface much like you would see in most word processing packages.

This in-line HTML editor will only appear if you use one of a specific range of browser types that knows how to start the editor. If you do not use one of these browser types, you can still use moodle just fine, but without the luxury of a WYSIWYG editor. Luckily, there is a supported browser that will work on all major operating system types. The list of supported and not supported browsers is shown below:

Browsers that support the HTML editor Browsers that do not support the HTML editor
Recent versions of: 

Internet Explorer (v5.5 or later) 
Firefox (all versions) 
Mozilla (v1.7 or later) 
SeaMonkey (all versions) 
Netscape (v7 or later) 
Any versions of: 

Opera 
Safari 
Camino