Faculty Development as Community Building - An approach to professional development that supports Communities of Practice for Online Teaching

dc.creator	Pam Miller
dc.creator	B. J. Eib
dc.date	2006-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:11:41Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:11:41Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/df04bb01b806470ab4caeef56ebce4a5
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/14602
dc.description	When faculty development is viewed as an ongoing need and when we approach faculty development as a long-term, continuous effort, community building becomes a part of the process. Carefully designed faculty development approaches can facilitate and create a culture that supports a thoughtful focus on teaching, while at the same time, nurture a sense of connectedness and collegiality across the organization that is vital to continuous innovation and improvement. This paper reports on a program designed to improve the collegial culture at a higher educational organization in Western Canada. While the program was aimed at a Social Work Faculty at a research university, we believe the design can be modified and applied in other disciplines and in other environments, such as distant and open universities. We conclude with suggestions for applying our approach to faculty development in open and distance institutional contexts.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/299/639
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 7, Iss 2 (2006)
dc.subject	faculty development
dc.subject	community building
dc.subject	professional development
dc.subject	higher education
dc.subject	open and distance education
dc.subject	community of practice
dc.subject	collegiality
dc.subject	distance education
dc.subject	higher education
dc.subject	culture
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Faculty Development as Community Building - An approach to professional development that supports Communities of Practice for Online Teaching
dc.type	article