St. John’s University’s Office of Online Learning and Services
offers formal training to our full and part-time faculty who may be
interested in teaching distance learning courses at the
University. Successful completion of the “Distance Learning
Pedagogy I” workshop is required for teaching any of the
University’s online courses, fully online or hybrid (unless faculty
members have previously received a waiver).
Upon successful completion of this six-week online workshop and
after teaching their first fully online course with assistance from
a Distance Learning mentor, the University will provide a stipend
of $1,000 to the faculty participant. In addition, the
University will also provide faculty with ongoing mentoring
support, as requested. The “distance learning pedagogy”
methods taught in the workshop are also appropriate for online
support of face-to-face courses. Three to four hours per week of
online participation will be required. The required parts of
the course will be completely asynchronous and online to model the
subject, to permit participants to choose the times when they will
participate, and to enable them to participate from wherever they
might be.
Online pedagogy workshops are offered during the Spring and Fall
semesters to prepare faculty who want to teach online during the
NEXT semester. The next six-week Distance Learning Pedagogy I
workshop begins on Monday, October 19 and ends
Friday, December 4, 2009. If you expect to
teach a class totally online or hybrid in Spring 2010, you should
enroll in this Oct-Dec session. If you expect to teach in
Fall 2010, you should enroll in the Pedagogy class scheduled for
the Spring semester. Prior course participants who did not
finish are also encouraged to reenroll. You can continue from where
you stopped.
There are a limited number of seats available; selection will be
based on curricular needs of the distance learning program, level
of commitment and date of registration for the class. It is
important to consult your chair before registering for this course
to ensure that your department wishes you to teach online or hybrid
in the appropriate semester. Prior to enrolling in this
workshop, faculty members should also know how to save files to
their “facpub” account and upload files on line. When registering
for the course, please indicate if you do not, so you can be guided
to the appropriate resources.
There will also be a series of optional on-campus workshops in the
basic skills of Blackboard courseware. The on-campus workshops will
be taught on Tuesdays, October 20, November 3 and November 17, from
12:15 to 1:15 PM in Library - St. Augustine Hall 308. These
workshops are open to all faculty members. Online PowerPoint slides
and tutorials are available for the Blackboard training, so that
you do not need to attend the on-campus workshops, but the
workshops are highly recommended. You will need to the Blackboard
skills to design and teach your course. Please visit
our online tutorials and workshop information.
Please note, all faculty members including those who teach online
courses need to be familiar with the University’s
course ownership policy. St. John’s policy for course
ownership is that faculty members own course materials unless St.
John’s University provides substantial use of university resources
to create them, then the faculty member is entitled to any
royalties resulting from licensing the course for use. St. John’s
notifies a faculty member when the assistance that they request
will be at this level. The formal copy of the course material
ownership policy on our web site.
Used properly, the Internet is an exciting medium for teaching and
learning. If you are interested in enrolling in the next scheduled
Distance Learning Pedagogy I workshop, please complete and submit
the application
form. For additional information, email chasene@stjohns.edu or
contact the Office of Online Learning & Services at
718-990-2786.