A course-in-a-box TPD initiative trained 673 faculty and produced 169 new online courses since 2019¶
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q2 i? Since the inception of the course-in-a-box TPD initiative in 2019, 673 faculty completed the training and 169 new online courses were developed. → Heap 2021
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Heap 2021¶
Heap, T., Thompson, R., & Fein, A. (2021). Designing teacher professional development programs to support a rapid shift to digital. Education Tech Research Dev, 69, 35–38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09863-5
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The article reports program statistics for the course-in-a-box initiative, an online asynchronous training course at a public research university in the Southern United States: "673 faculty completed the training and 169 new online courses were developed." The courses followed Quality Matters, W3C accessibility, and copyright compliance standards.
"Indeed, since the inception of this TPD initiative in 2019, 673 faculty completed the training and 169 new online courses were developed (Smatresk 2020), which followed instructional design (Quality Matters 2018), accessibility (W3C 2018), and copyright and trademark compliance standards."
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A course-in-a-box TPD initiative trained 673 faculty and produced 169 new online courses since 2019 |
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