Adult Learning Influence on Faculty Learning Cycle: Individual and Shared Reflections While Learning to Teach Online Lead to Pedagogical Transformations

Adult Learning Influence on Faculty Learning Cycle: Individual and Shared Reflections While Learning to Teach Online Lead to Pedagogical Transformations

Karen Skibba
ISBN13: 9781466619630|ISBN10: 1466619635|EISBN13: 9781466619647
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1963-0.ch014
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Skibba, Karen. "Adult Learning Influence on Faculty Learning Cycle: Individual and Shared Reflections While Learning to Teach Online Lead to Pedagogical Transformations." Virtual Mentoring for Teachers: Online Professional Development Practices, edited by Jared Keengwe and Lydia Kyei-Blankson, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 263-291. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1963-0.ch014

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Skibba, K. (2013). Adult Learning Influence on Faculty Learning Cycle: Individual and Shared Reflections While Learning to Teach Online Lead to Pedagogical Transformations. In J. Keengwe & L. Kyei-Blankson (Eds.), Virtual Mentoring for Teachers: Online Professional Development Practices (pp. 263-291). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1963-0.ch014

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Skibba, Karen. "Adult Learning Influence on Faculty Learning Cycle: Individual and Shared Reflections While Learning to Teach Online Lead to Pedagogical Transformations." In Virtual Mentoring for Teachers: Online Professional Development Practices, edited by Jared Keengwe and Lydia Kyei-Blankson, 263-291. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1963-0.ch014

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to share results of a qualitative research study that investigated how faculty members learn to teach adult learners using online course delivery. In this study, experienced faculty members needed to learn anew and rethink pedagogical strategies when designing and teaching online delivery formats. Faculty members who are learning to teach are also adult learners who learn through experience. Research themes emerged from interviews regarding how instructors learned to teach adult learners online: (a) adapted to market demand, (b) anchored by adult learning strategies, (c) experimented in online laboratory, (d) evolved from trial and error to collaboration, and (e) rethought pedagogical possibilities. Understanding how faculty members learn to teach adult students online offers great potential to identify the challenges that faculty members face and how they meet these challenges to improve teaching practice. Implications for online professional development practices are discussed.

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