TRANSITION OF CLASSES FOR A FLEXIBLE ENVIRONMENT
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Performance Gap
Technique/tool for further investigation Maybe, viewing how other colleges provide training, with online training modules. Look at the success rates for using online training modules, for faculty, at other colleges. Find research articles about this topic…
Information I hope to learn Why do online training modules work for employees? How does providing online chats or an answer hotline make a difference, for faculty in learning how in transferring courses to online courses? What training videos are available to view for transferring courses to online courses? Would these work at Small Hill Community College?
Faculty needed training for creating online classes to be flexible,
informative, and resourceful at a
proficient level for themselves. They wanted online training modules. The tech team is too small and always busy to answer questions.
Adapted from Training Ain’t Performance, pg. 30 by Stolovitch, H.D. &Keeps, E.J.(2004). Alexandria, VA: ASTD Press the support that they needed? It was a different viewpoint than what the Provost noted. The faculty did not see the support from department heads and it was evident. The fault was with both attitudes of the faculty and the department heads. The innovation theory could have used for both the department heads, as well as the faculty. The Provost just did not see using the theory for both parties. Planning for Change Active people who work regularly, in a work setting, set their priorities. Deadlines are enforced by bosses. It was good that Small Hill Community College decided to make a transition of all core classes to online classes within five years. It might be that the full-time faculty did not seem to have enough time to transfer the core classes to online classes. However, only letting the full-time faculty do this might be a barrier in itself. Maybe it would be just better to let the part- time instructors help, to meet a deadline. The Provost was viewing the Innovation Theory (Rogers, 1995). With this theory, he identified the following; • The diffusion of innovations theory examines the method and speed at which new ideas, practices, or products spread in a set of people. • The roles of people in the theory are innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. • In marketing, this diffusion of innovations theory is often applied, to help understand and promote a way of doing something. • This application of the theory usually views people who are efficient. How was this theory different than what the faculty members ended up saying about
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