Mentoring Professors: A Model for Developing Quality Online Instructors and Courses in Higher Education

Casimir Barczyk; Janet Buckenmeyer; Lori Feldman

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 9, No. 1 (January 2010) pp. 7–26

This article presents a four-stage model for mentoring faculty in higher education to deliver high quality online instruction. It provides a timeline that shows the stages of program implementation. Known as the Distance Education Mentoring Program, ...

Topics: Faculty, Adults, Mentoring, Professional Development, Instructional Design, Distance Education, Training

Assessing the Impact of Faculty Development for Online Instructors

Emily Hixon; Janet Buckenmeyer; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 672–681

This study summarizes the results of a program evaluation of the Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP), an ongoing initiative at Purdue University Calumet, Indiana (USA) designed to enhance the development of online courses by mentoring...

Does Participation In A Faculty Distance Education Mentoring Program Comprehensively Improve Teaching Methods?

Janet Buckenmeyer; Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 12, No. 2 (March 2013) pp. 139–152

The Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP) is an initiative designed to assist faculty in learning the technology and instructional design principles necessary to develop and teach quality online courses. This paper describes the results of a...

Wanted: Quality Online Instructors and Courses? Try this Successful Mentoring Model

Janet Buckenmeyer; Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman; David Freitas

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 921–926

If you are looking to design and implement a program that produces successful online faculty teaching effective online courses, then this session is for you. A proven, four-stage model for preparing and certifying higher education faculty to create...

Does Participating in an Online Course Development Program

Emily Hixon; Janet Buckenmeyer; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2387–2390

There seems to be much anecdotal evidence that many faculty members do experience shifts in pedagogical beliefs after successfully developing and teaching an online course. Some anecdotal accounts have been published in the professional literature; ...

Beyond the early adopters of online instruction: Motivating the reluctant majority

Emily Hixon; Janet Buckenmeyer; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman; Heather Zamojski

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 15, No. 2 (March 2012) pp. 102–107

Now that most of the innovators and early adopters of online instruction are comfortably teaching online, many institutions are facing challenges as they prepare the next wave of online instructors. This research study examines how faculty in this ...

Language: English

Mentoring University Faculty to become High Quality Online Educators: A Program Evaluation

Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Janet Buckenmeyer; Lori Feldman

Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 14, No. 4 (2011)

This study summarizes the results of a program evaluation of the Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP), an ongoing initiative at Purdue University Calumet, Indiana (USA) designed to enhance the development of online courses by mentoring...

Assessment of a University-Based Distance Education Mentoring Program from a Quality Management Perspective

Casimir Barczyk; Janet Buckenmeyer; Lori Feldman; Emily Hixon

Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2011) pp. 5–24

This study describes assessment results from the Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP) at Purdue University Calumet, Indiana, USA. The program, sponsored by the university's Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, was made available to all...