Increasing access to Higher Education: A study of the diffusion of online teaching among 913 college faculty

dc.creator	Peter Shea
dc.creator	Alexandra Pickett
dc.creator	Chun Sau Li
dc.date	2005-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:30:44Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:30:44Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/822bbf8399ce48f78e6c3e085e3d9eff
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/31004
dc.description	Online learning environments provide an unprecedented opportunity to increase student access to higher education. Accomplishing this much needed goal requires the active participation and cooperation of university faculty from a broad spectrum of institutional settings. Although online learning has seen rapid growth in recent years, it remains a relatively small percentage of the entire curriculum of higher education today. As a relatively recent development, online teaching can be viewed through the lens of diffusion of innovation research. This paper reports on research from 913 professors from community colleges, four-year colleges, and university centers in an attempt to determine potential barriers to the continued growth in adoption of online teaching in higher education. It is concluded through factor and regression analysis that four variables are significantly associated with faculty satisfaction and their likelihood, therefore, to adopt or continue online teaching – these include levels of interaction in their online course, technical support, a positive learning experience in developing and teaching the course, and the discipline area in which they taught. Recommendations for institutional policy, faculty development, and further research are included.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/content/v6.2/shea.html
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 6, Iss 2 (2005)
dc.subject	online teaching
dc.subject	faculty satisfaction
dc.subject	faculty development
dc.subject	diffusion of innovation
dc.subject	access
dc.subject	higher education
dc.subject	study
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	Increasing access to Higher Education: A study of the diffusion of online teaching among 913 college faculty
dc.type	article