Improve Your Online Teaching: Integrating Evaluation and Feedback for Pedagogical Change
SPECIAL GUEST:
Jean Mandernach
Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching
Grand Canyon University
Summary
To improve the quality of online learning, it is essential to identify instructional strategies that are most likely to impact the student learning experience. Using a holistic approach to evaluations, instructors can gain feedback on their own teaching in order to better understand the role and value of various pedagogical approaches within the unique context of their online classroom. For this ELI webinar, we will examine strategies for evaluating online teaching and explore how you can utilize evaluation data to enhance the quality of your online teaching.
Objectives:
After participating in this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Integrate formative and summative evaluation strategies into their online classrooms.
- Operationalize teaching behaviors that align with best practices in online education.
- Create a holistic strategy for utilizing teaching evaluation data to enhance online instruction.
- Utilize self-, peer-, and administrative evaluation data to drive pedagogical change.
Additional Resources
- Tobin, T., Mandernach, B.J. & Taylor, A. (2015). Evaluating Online Teaching. Wiley: Jossey-Bass.
- Taylor, A. & Mandernach, B.J. (2015). Formative evaluations for online education. Online Classroom. Madison, WI: Magna Publications, Inc.
- Palese, K. & Mandernach, B. J. (2015). Data analytics and predictive modeling: The future of evaluating online teaching. eLearn Magazine.
- Mandernach, B.J., Donnelli, E., Dailey, A., & Schulte, M. (2005). A faculty evaluation model for online instructors: Mentoring and evaluation in the online classroom. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 8 (3).
Technical Requirements
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