Immersion in a Digital Pool: Training Prospective Online Instructors in Online Environments

Chapter 7. Designing a More Equitable Scorecard: Grading Contracts and Online Writing Instruction

“…Instructors proceed through the modules as a cohort, just like their students will in their own hybrid classes. Instructors interact with each other (and me) through asynchronous online discussion boards, Google Docs, Voicethread, hypothes.is, and other platforms so that they have experience working with these tools from a student's perspective (Cook, 2007;. Here's the overview in the LMS for the August 2018 cohort:…”

“…How much content can you ask them to engage with in a given week? How much time is necessary for them to experience the online environment (Cargile Cook, 2007)? What competing demands will they be responsible for during the time(s) it is offered?…”

Foreword: Turning Research into Practice,

“…Instructors work in all three learning environments available to them as hybrid instructors: asynchronous online, synchronous online, and face-to-face. This design responds to both what my colleagues specifically asked for and to the scholarship that has long called for OWI teacher training that focuses on pedagogy, not merely technology CCCC OWI Position Statement, 2013;Cook 2007;Snart, 2015).…”

“…and Ph.D. program curricula do not have room for another annual pedagogy seminar-we first began envisioning this course as a one-credit course for graduate students because we wanted to ensure they would receive formal recognition for taking the course. However, at the time, our university's budget model prevented graduate students from receiving tuition remission for online courses, and we knew it was necessary to offer the course online to simulate the experiences of a student in an online course (Cargile Cook, 2007). Moreover, we knew even a one-credit course would be inaccessible to the part-time faculty we were trying to be responsive to: they would have to pay for it or, if they qualified for tuition 2.…”

Balancing Institutional Demands with Effective Practice: A Lesson in Curricular and Professional Development

“…She, however, acknowledged using a "course in a box" (what is now regularly referred to as a Learning Management System (LMS)) might be helpful to new online instructors. Building upon Hewett's and Ehmann's (2004), and many others, emphasis on training new online instructors in online environments (OWI 7), Cook (2007) adds that students benefit from building the archive of course materials within their online training course. In short, building "master" courses (a "canned," fully pre-built course with all the assignment and activity prompts, gradebook, etc.)…”