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Student Success Innovations vs. Faculty Workload Concerns: How to Find a Balance for Success

Authors:
Tamara Powell
Julie R. Newell
Stephen Bartlett
Sam Lee
Brayden Milam
Lauren Snider

Keywords: student success rates; innovation; feedback; open educational resources; training transfer; social media

Abstract:
Researchers at a public (state funded) institution in the United States seek to increase student success rates in online courses by encouraging faculty implementation of research-based strategies in their online courses without significantly increasing faculty workloads. The researchers created a program that provided short, research-based, student-success strategy segments to faculty already enrolled in faculty development. These teaching tools were largely based on pedagogical research and methods long understood within traditional education disciplines, but not as obviously applied to online course delivery. In this sense, the professional development modules are innovations to traditional online training. After the training program, the researchers analyzed faculty response to the training to improve design principles and delivery for future development of eLearning materials. While the impact of the innovations developed in this student success endeavor are still largely to be determined, preliminary results indicate that faculty find the professional development modules helpful and will be implementing them in their courses.

Pages: 15 to 20

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: July 18, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4367

ISBN: 978-1-61208-873-0

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 18, 2021 to July 22, 2021