Instituting and advocating technology training and sharing of ideas for online courseware

ABSTRACT

How can you invite and encourage faculty to share their knowledge and ideas about courseware? A successful faculty technology training program promotes interdepartmental collaboration and sharing of such information. This presentation will focus on key strategies used to promote technology sharing amongst faculty while assisting in courseware implementation, training, documentation, and support.The issue of courseware purchase is not a unique one. Most universities have had an online presence for some time. The issues at hand in the decision of purchasing courseware for our university was: Resource limitations, Size of faculty and staff, Late adoption of courseware.Courses of action decided upon and taken to accomplish this goal included training of those who would instruct faculty, creating documentation, providing faculty workshops and other various support services.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.1 Computer Uses in Education

General Terms:
Documentation

Keywords:
collaboration, courseware, documentation, training