Jenny Roye

Faculty Preparedness for Online Instruction: Promoting Instructor, Social and Cognitive Presence

Jenny Roye, MSN, RN

Clinical Assistant Professor

Assistant Director of Technology and Curriculum Integration
Program Manager of Undergraduate Clinical Facilities Coordination Accelerated Online BSN Program
Lead Teacher- Nursing Care of Children and Adolescents

College of Nursing and Health Innovation

[email protected]

Students in the online environment often feel disconnected and become disengaged. As instructors, it is our responsibility to promote and maximize cognitive, social, and instructor presence within our courses and programs. Based on the Community of Inquiry model, faculty need to have the skills to effectively provide instruction that meets the needs of the online learner, in those three realms. The goal of my project is to assess the learning needs of our faculty, provide tools and faculty development offerings to meet these needs, and evaluate the effectiveness of training provided. The outcome would be increased cognitive, social, and instructor presence in our courses resulting in increased student engagement and increased satisfaction of the learner experience.

Jenny Roye

Feel free to join my organization! Technology Resources for Nursing faculty- not just for nursing faculty!
Search it out in Blackboard.
- Maria Trache
  
  Jenny, how do we access these resources in Blackboard? Good ideas to try.
  - Jenny Roye
    
    Maria, go to our Blackboard, and on the left menu, go down to organizations. Type “Technology Resources for Nursing Faculty ” in the search organizations box and you can enroll in the organizations. All of the resources are in there. Feel free to share!
- Marcela Gutierrez
  
  Hi Jenny! I’m curious — which resources have you found to be the most helpful in increasing student engagement?
  - Jenny Roye
    
    I think the screen capture resources are popular among our faculty. I think that might be due to the fact that I use screen capture to make my tutorial videos that I send to faculty, and they see how effective it can be.
- Alex Hunnicutt
  
  What an interesting group project. Short, focused tutorial videos can be so helpful.
J. T. Dellinger

I am curious as to why the 9 were not interested in increasing online community. I wonder if it is course specific? Regarding the resource center, how did you determine what resources to put in it? I remember when I started developing the AP Resource Center Blackboard organization back in 2013, I went to faculty teaching AP courses, CDE Support, CDE Instructional Design, and CDE Training to get all perspectives on needs that would benefit all parties. Custom tailoring through groups really helped it be an initial success (I am curious if anyone is still keeping it up to date and if faculty use it).
Jenny Roye

I think it might have had to do with on/off campus. I sent the needs assessment to all lead teachers, not just AO. Maybe the on campus leads feel they don’t need that piece. As far as what I put in the resource center- it was purely selfish:) I put in what I thought was cool and innovative. I did also put in conferences and educational offerings- I want the baby birds to fly on their own….
Peggy Semingson

I love your survey questions. How did the “virtual mentor” part work? How did the virtual faculty development offerings go for the clinical instructors? I agree-the CDE is totally helpful!
Regina Urban

I think faculty preparedness is an important issue. This helps with instructor satisfaction and retention with downstream impacts on student community, satisfaction, and success. A needs assessment is a smart way to identify what the needs of our unit are. A virtual mentor is a great way to talk about various topics in a more non-threatening manner. It would be interesting to create role-plays with virtual mentors that demonstrate best practices for how to handle a situation versus an example of how NOT to do it. 🙂