Master Online Teacher Competencies eLearning Conference 2007

1. Master Online Teacher CompetencieseLearning Conference 2007 Virgil E. Varvel Jr.

2. Quality – What Is It? • Student • Services • Library • Tutor • Accessibility • Sport & Fitness • Counseling • Advising • Outcomes • Satisfaction • Enrollments, Retention, and Degree Time • Total Numbers • Alumni Programs

3. Quality – What Is It? • Institutional • Library • Size • Reference Services • Students • Total Enrollments • Retention and Transfers • Time to Completion • Degree Programs • Number • Type • Total Courses • Transferability • Course Quality • Endowments • Alumni Support • Technology Infrastructure • Physical Infrastructure & Campus Facilities • Sports Success

4. Quality – What Is It? • Faculty • Support Services • Library • Instructional Design • Accessibility • Publishing • Equipment • Pay • Research • Awards • Grants • Publications • Total Number • Full-time v. Adjunct

5. Quality – Instructional Level • What makes one course better than another? • Student outcomes, support, satisfaction, etc. • But these depend on… • Support services overall which affect all courses at one institution versus another. • Course quality or rubric alignment • Instructor quality or competency

6. What is a competency? a competent individual is: one who effectively and efficiently accomplishes a task [instructs] in a given context [digital distance education] using appropriate knowledge, skills, attitudes, and abilities that have adjusted and developed with time and needs.

7. Why a competency document? • Functionally characterize those with competence. • Speaks to the quality of the program, its instructors, and any courses offered. • Help lay out professional development plans. • Help define the goals in the program aimed at developing the competencies.

8. What issues are involved in implementation? • Goal setting or requirement setting? • Administrative support of competency model development, implementation, and support. • Incentives for competency development. • Importance of historical context of the individual.

9. What issues are involved in competencies? • How will the competencies be organized, chosen, updated, etc.? • Which competencies and how many competencies are needed for the given context? • What are core competencies? • How will the competencies be evaluated?

10. Competencies

11. Administrative Roles(Systems, Ethical and Legal Issues) • Institutional Context • Intellectual Property Issues and Regulations • Student Issues and Management • Additional Legal and Ethical Issues • Instructor Selection and Evaluation • Support Mechanisms

12. Personal Roles (Personal Qualities and Characteristics) • Content Knowledge • Teaching Commitment • Communication Ability • Time Management • Patience • Relative Objectivity

13. Technological Roles (Technology Knowledge and Abilities) • Access • Technical Proficiencies • Technical Assistance

14. Instructional Design Roles (Instructional Design Processes, Knowledge, and Abilities) • Syllabus and Introductory Materials • Materials Selection, Modification, and Evaluation • Variability and Flexibility of Content and Activities • Rational Planning of Activities

15. Pedagogical Roles (Teaching Processes, Knowledge, and Abilities) • Education and Learning Theory • Cognitive Presence • Instructional Processes / Pedagogy / Presence (5 pages of sub-competencies)

16. Assessment Roles (Assessing Student Learning and Abilities) • Purposeful Assessment • Select, Construct, and Utilize Assessment Strategies • Varied, Authentic Assessment • Feedback Provisions • Utilize Appropriate Technologies • Academic Honesty Issues Addressed • Privacy Issues Addressed

17. Social Processes and Presence (Social Roles) • Community of Learners • Community of Practice • Cultural Competency • Conflict Management • Social Presence • Socializing Agent