Guidelines for Creating and Evaluating Scholarly Instruction in Internet-Delivered Courses

October 15, 1999, 8:15-9:15 Split Rock Resort, Lake Harmony, PA

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Sally Kuhlenschmidt, Ph. D., Western Kentucky University


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Overview

Participants in Workshop

Faculty Development Officers and those needing to evaluate faculty on-line work for compensation, promotion, and tenure.

Objectives

At the end of this session, participants will

  1. have an expanded understanding of issues in Internet-delivered instruction
  2. understand some potential components of scholarly on-line work
  3. have begun to explore the application of Glassick's 6 principles of scholarship to on-line instruction

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What is Internet-delivered instruction?

Every job is a self-portrait of the individual who did it. --Carolyn Coats, 1994.

Key dimensions

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What is scholarship? 3 Models

If you're looking to find the key to the Universe, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is - there is no key to the Universe. The good news is - the universe has been left unlocked.

Minimum Level

Boshier, Mohapi, Moulton, Qayyam, Sadownik, & Wilson (1997)

  1. Accessibility

  2. Interaction (Human interaction, not technological interactivity)

  3. Attractiveness

Glassick, Huber, & Maeroff (1997, p. 36)

  1. Clear Goals
  2. Adequate Preparation
  3. Appropriate Methods
  4. Significant Results
  5. Effective Presentation
  6. Reflective Critique

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Activity

Objective: Explore how to apply the Glassick criteria to Internet instruction.

  1. If we have sufficient attendance to form small groups, elect a recorder/speaker (a volunteer or the person who got up earliest this morning). Otherwise, listen for instructions.
  2. You'll be assigned one of the 6 Glassick, Huber, & Maeroff (1997) criteria, given a transparency and a marker.
  3. Consider/discuss what would be necessary for Internet-delivered instruction to meet that criterion. For "adequate preparation," for example, is knowledge of content area sufficient? necessary at all?
  4. Record as many ideas as you can in the allotted time on the transparency or flip chart sheet.

    If there is too little time to share all ideas with the group, I will post them to this website (see top of handout for address).

Results of Group Discussion

1. Clear Goals

2. Adequate Preparation

3. Appropriate Methods

4. Significant Results

5. Effective Presentation

6. Reflective Critique

Other ideas

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Continuing Issues

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." --E. Hoffer.

1. Societal Issues of Importance to Scholars

2. Peer Review

3. The Challenge:

When we attend to the scholarship of on-line work:

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