Alternate Delivery Program

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (Summer 2009)

Eligible faculty who successfully complete the following requirements will receive a one-time, $1,500 course development stipend added to their regular salary and payment schedule for teaching a winter or summer special session course.

January 12

• Ask your department chair to send a “letter of support” to Tim Lynch (lynch@umbc.edu) and John Fritz (fritz@umbc.edu).
• Note: if you send it on behalf of your chair, it must be signed by the chair, digitally scanned, and included as .PDF (portable document format) file attachment to your email.

January 15-16

Hybrid course re-design workshop.

• Day One from 1 to 4 p.m. will focus on the "re-design" process including reflections on your current course, presentations by Barry Casey and John Fritz on "Redesigning Your Course for Significant Learning", and a team based learning demo and discussion of workshop readings.

• Day Two from 9 a.m. to noon will focus on viewing effective demos of "learning objects" created by past participants and discussing modules that you can move online as part of your hybrid course. These demos will help you prepare for your required deliverable presentations below.

March 6

• Present a learning object, module, assignment, activity or exercise that you plan to use in your course (10-20 minutes), noon-1:30 p.m., ECS 023.

  Lunch will be provided, but an email RSVP to darnold@umbc.edu to determine headcount is appreciated.

  A review panel of faculty who have taught a summer or winter ADP course twice will hear the presentation, which is open to the campus and will be videotaped. Past presentations are also available for review on the Teaching and Learning section of UMBC's free iTunesU site, which will also be coming to YouTube soon

It is important to understand there are TWO distinct parts to your presentation requirement:

1) creating the learning object others can review online in advance of your presentation; and
2) giving a presentation about the learning object on a specific date & time.

Here are some guidelines to keep in mind:

• The learning object should specifically address the pedagogical problems (or implications) a hybrid or online course solves (or creates). 
• So others can view it, you must post your learning object on the companion Hybrid Course Design “Practice” site, to which all users have instructor access upon request.
• The presentation must include a peer AND student review to gauge the learning object’s potential effectiveness. 
• Reqired presentation outline:

1. A brief statement of the pedagogical problem or current benefit you are trying to solve or extend in moving from F2F to hybrid delivery;
2. A brief description of how the proposed assignment or activity does so;
3. A summary of feedback from one peer AND one student after you showed them the deliverable you described in #2;
4. Next steps you will take to address issues or opportunities raised in #3;
5. Brief Q & A.

Note: If you cannot present to the panel in person, the learning object deliverable AND narrated presentation must be posted on the Hybrid Course Design "Practice" site in Blackboard. Just as you would need to do so in your hybrid course, if you cannot present in person, you need to solve the problem of your absent presence in making a preentation to the review faculty panel.

April 17

• Present a 2nd learning object, module, assignment, activity or exercise that you plan to use in your course (10-20 minutes), noon-1:30 p.m., ECS 023.

  Lunch will be provided, but an email RSVP to darnold@umbc.edu is appreciated.

  Note: You will be using the same format described for deliverable #1 above

May-August, 2009

• Teach your SU2009 course in hybrid or online delivery format.

September, 2009

• Complete an online evaluation about the ADP program.