2016-17 Online Workshop

Description

The workshop is designed in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison for full-time theological school faculty to conceive, build, implement, assess, and redesign an online or hybrid course to be taught in the 2016-17 academic year. The primary focus is on developing and implementing a successful free-standing course, through an exploration of sound pedagogical practice within the hybrid or online venue. The workshop will be offered in a hybrid design, blending elements of individual work, three face-to-face sessions with peers on the Wabash College campus, and collaborative work in a virtual learning community.

During the first summer participants will engage in an intensive program that includes an online course bookended by meetings on the Wabash College campus. In two face-to-face sessions and an online experience, participants will design and build their own online or hybrid course. It is necessary for participants to teach the course they designed during the 2016-17 year and to gather assessment information from their students. Concluding with a session in the summer of 2017, participants will review their assessment information, share best practices, wrestle with deeper issues of pedagogy and sociology of learning, and revise their courses accordingly

Goals

Participants will be able to:

• Identify the unique opportunities and challenges for effective teaching and learning posed by each of the traditional, hybrid, and online teaching venues
• Explore issues of pedagogy and the sociology of learning communities as applied in the online and hybrid venues
• Make informed decisions about how to shape effective pedagogical and sociological strategies for the venue in which they will be used, in order to achieve the desired learning outcomes
• Design, construct, implement, assess, and revise a well-conceived and pedagogically sound course for delivery in an online or hybrid format
• Experience how to design and execute activities and processes in the various venues in order to achieve learning outcomes aimed at affective, relational, and formational outcomes.

Application Materials

Applications are closed.

1. Application contact information form
2. One-page cover letter answering the following questions:
   • What do you believe is the potential for offering theological education in online or hybrid venues?
   • What are the limitations and concerns you have to offering online or hybrid theological education?
   • What is your motivation for participating in this workshop?
   • What experience have you already had in using educational technology as part of your teaching practice, whether to enhance a face-to-face course, or to deliver a fully online or hybrid course? Keep in mind that you do not need to have had a great deal of experience with technology or online teaching, nor do you need to be without reservation about its potential.
3. Academic CV (4-page limit)
4. Letter from your dean, rector, or principal:
   • confirming that you will teach this hybrid or online course during the 2016-17 academic year;
   • identifying the learning management system support person at the institution who will provide IT infrastructure and support for the course;
   • certifying that you will be ready to enter the first summer sessions with a course shell ready in your institution’s course management system. Please have this signed letter sent directly to you on institutional letterhead and include it with your application materials.

Stipend

The Wabash Center will cover all local expenses and travel to Crawfordsville, Indiana for the three face-to-face sessions. In addition, participants will receive a stipend of $3,400 for full participation in the online course and all face-to-face sessions.

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