Instruct and facilitate meaningful learning of the course competencies in the curriculum and proactively support all facets of the online learning environment. Provide career education through learner-centered instruction that will enable graduates to fulfill the evolving needs of the marketplace. Encourage a culture of learning that values mutual responsibility, life-long learning, diversity, and ethics as well as personal and professional development.
Key Job Elements:
- Provides competency-based education
- Delivers online class instruction of the AIO approved online course
- Enables student exit competencies
- Delivers learner-centered instruction through distance delivery mechanisms
- Encourages student success
- Manages the online class environment
- Contributes to a culture of learning
- Relates industry experience to learning
Faculty Performance Criteria:
Instructor Presence
- The instructor is visible and active in the classroom five of seven days each week. The faculty person cannot be absent from the class for more than a 24 hour period.
- The instructor is expected to provide feedback to all students assignments and questions within 48 hours of the assignment due date.
- The instructor is expected to respond to students personal emails in a timely manner.
Classroom Organization
- The instructor is expected to keep the classroom area organized.
- The instructor is expected to deliver the course based on the competencies associated with the course.
- The instructor is expected to access and use the facilitator notes in supporting the organization and delivery of the course.
Instructor Communication
- The instructor is expected to maintain a friendly and professional attitude in all communications with students.
- Is expected to be encouraging and supportive.
- The instructor is expected to model an appropriate level of communication skills; both written and verbal.
- The instructor is expected to provide clear objectives and expectations.
- The instructor is expected to call every student prior the start of each session.
- The is expected to call students in situations where a phone call is appropriate.
Discussion Facilitation
- The instructor is expected to encourage collaborative learning and active student involvement in the learning process.
- The instructor is expected to facilitate a meaningful and ongoing dialog.
- The instructor is expected to create a climate of trust and openness in the classroom.
Instructor Feedback
- The instructor is expected to provide assessment of student performance based on assignment criteria and course competencies for each assignment with 48 hours of the assignment due date and to provide a weekly grades, feedback and each students grade to date within 72 hours following each week. The grades are to be posted to the system grade book.
- The instructor is expected to provide constructive feedback with suggestions for improvement to all student assignments.
- The instructor is expected to highlight areas of strength in all student assignments.
- The instructor is expected to provide meaningful assignment feedback in a timely manner in the classroom. The feedback to students assignments should be made in the classroom. The grades and corrective communications should be made through personal communications with the student and posted in the grade book.
Student Attention
- The instructor is expected to address the needs and abilities of individual students.
- The instructor is expected to assist students in solving problems that may impede the successful completion of the course.
Communication with the Online Academic Program Director
- The instructor is expected to attend calls sponsored by the OAPD prior to each start.
- The instructor is expected communicate with the OAPD about any challenges, concerns, or issues not covered in the policies and procedures and expectations associated with the classroom.
Policies and Procedures
- All faculty are expected to be familiar with all policies and procedures, and the reporting chain related to the school in which the instructor will be working.
Student Demographics The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online:
The majority of students are adult learners with full time jobs, families and children. The typical class is between 13 to 16 students and persistence is minus 1-2 students per class.
Student Demographics at Francis Marion University:
The majority of the students are young adult, full time students. The typical class size is 45 students and persistence is minus 2-4 students per class.
Student Demographics Cappella University:
The majority of students are adult learners with full time jobs, families and children. The typical class is between 13 to 22 students and persistence is minus 1-3 students per class.
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