Podcasts, EDUCAUSE_SERC07, and Online Teaching Strategies

Will faculty reduce lectures, become facilitators of learning, and adopt interactive learning methods? Are development tools available to help bring about these changes? Will students benefit? These questions were addressed in Florida Community College's presentation of the SIRIUS Project involving over 300 faculty. The presentation was titled "A SIRIUS Look at Faculty Development".

In this 12 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Bill Ganza, Director of Professional Development at Florida Community College in Jacksonville, Florida. He discuss professional development for faculty and the SIRIUS project that has been implemented at his and other campuses.

In this six and a half minute podcast, we feature an interview from the EDUCAUSE 2007 Southeast Regional Conference. I conducted the interview with Jim Murphy, Director of Instructional Design & Development at Elon University. He presented a session entitled, "Elon's Web-Based Summer School: An Online Success Story".

Elon University has developed a successful summer online courses program, popular with both faculty and students. In this interview Jim Murphy describes the challenges faced in establishing and maintaining the program, highlighting the factors that have helped ensure its success.

This podcast features a 9 minute interview with Barbara J. Hoskins, Assistant Dean for the College of Health, Education & Human Development at Clemson University. In this conversation, recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Southeast Regional Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Dean Hoskins discusses the session she presented at the conference entitled, "Effective Online Program Models from Faculty and Student Perspectives".

From the session description:

With online learning, we have moved beyond the early adopter phase and find ourselves seeking effective models and best practices to ensure we are delivering a quality educational opportunity. This presentation will identify nationally accepted criteria for effective online programs and evaluate the success of delivery models from all viewpoints.