In the wake of COVID-19, this mid-sized community college built capacity across campus constituencies in which many faculty had never operated outside their technical classroom where we moved instruction and operations fully online. We will share our professional development mobilization plan in which we built the capacity of remote instruction and learning by training more than 300 faculty, staff, student instructors, and tutors through emergency training in one week with follow-on training and support throughout the pandemic. Examine how we deployed a training model to span the needs of novice to expert faculty including technical and academic part-time, full-time, and independent school district faculty. Explore our faculty empowerment strategies in which we built the capacity of novice online faculty to engage in quality course development while learning basic functions of the learner management system. This session will provide an overview of our emergency training, lessons learned from follow-on training, messaging to faculty, and our in-house Teaching Online Certification course. We will cover our successes and pitfalls in an effort to help others grow their capacity in quality online teaching. The session will also include how we utilized our Quality Matters Teaching Online Certified faculty to mentor faculty and facilitate our in-house distance education certification course.
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Formulate a professional development plan to meet a crisis head-on.
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Build a cadre of online faculty using Quality Matters Teaching Online Certified Faculty.
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Increase the capacity of faculty around quality online instruction using the power of the LMS.
