Faculty Practices in Asynchronous Online Distance Education

This monograph examines the best interactive §practices of effective faculty to ascertain the §deliberate processes that they employ. How do §successful online Distance Education, §approach the fostering and development of §interactivity in an asynchronous learning §environment? What do successful online Distance §Education faculties do to make their teaching more §interactive? Are there different approaches to §generate interactivity in different courses? §Effective faculties deploy certain methodologies, §practices to generate interactivity in preactive §phases and active teaching phases. Program directors §identified twelve faculty for interview who §facilitate effective interaction. Thirty faculty §were identified for participation in a Delphi study §to identify and prioritize additional practices. §The result is a list of 23 practice priorities that §serve as an understanding of the interactivity that §is generated by effective online faculty. These §practices can maximize the learning and the online §experience for students and teachers. This monograph examines the best interactive §practices of effective faculty to ascertain the §deliberate processes that they employ. How do §successful online Distance Education, §approach the fostering and development of §interactivity in an asynchronous learning §environment? What do successful online Distance §Education faculties do to make their teaching more §interactive? Are there different approaches to §generate interactivity in different courses? §Effective faculties deploy certain methodologies, §practices to generate interactivity in preactive §phases and active teaching phases. Program directors §identified twelve faculty for interview who §facilitate effective interaction. Thirty faculty §were identified for participation in a Delphi study §to identify and prioritize additional practices. §The result is a list of 23 practice priorities that §serve as an understanding of the interactivity that §is generated by effective online faculty. These §practices can maximize the learning and the online §experience for students and teachers.