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Institutions of higher education are faced with the challenge of developing faculty who are ready, willing, and able to teach online. Standard approaches towards faculty development often miss the dynamic and complex relationship between content,...

Abstract: Technology diffusion refers to the process of spreading a program of technology use across/throughout an organization, program, etc. We used activity theory to frame the research design and analysis of a qualitative study with the goal of...

Abstract: This is a cross-case analysis of three faculty members who designed and taught online classes for the first time. In a "learning technology by design" class, faculty and students cooperatively designed an online class that the faculty...

We describe an approach to faculty development that brings together senior education faculty and graduate students to design online learning environments. This approach forces course designers to confront beliefs about what constitutes good teaching,...

Abstract: We draw from research on the culture of higher education to describe the process of technology diffusion within a large teacher education program. We followed the activities of a small, diverse group of individuals administering a PT3...

Institutions of higher education must find ways to develop the expertise needed to teach in the online world. Rather than address the technology as a separate set of skills that can be addressed separately through workshops, this paper makes the...

In this study, we followed three faculty members' experiences with designing and teaching online courses for the first time. In order to complete the activity, the faculty members had to work collaboratively with others across the university....