Focus on the Future: Lamar University and Higher Ed Holdings Association
Eighteen months ago Lamar University College of Education and Human Development entered into a partnership with a service provider, Higher Ed Holdings, to offer a Master of Education in educational administration and teacher leadership through an innovative web-based delivery system. A master degree in Educational Technology Leadership has recently been added. The Lamar University Academic Association (luap) was created for several purposes, to address the need for affordable, accessible master’s for teachers throughout the state of Texas to strengthen Lamar programs through careful study and application of best practices in the areas of instructional content and innovative design to delivery, and to increase enrollment in master’s programs at Lamar University. It is clear that we have succeeded in these areas and we must use a continuous improvement model to address the many challenges that the program on a daily basis. Many of the rewarding aspects of luap fewer results of efforts aimed at meeting the three objectives cited above. Examples include increased collaboration of teachers, development of the exceptional power, a greater understanding of communication problems in web-based teaching, student support, and implementation of strategies to address these challenges. An additional benefit is to improve infrastructure throughout the university luap needed to support also enhances support for students in all programs, based on campus and others.
Lamar University is in Beaumont, Texas, eight miles from the Louisiana border. North Lamar is a respected regional institution serving Northeast Texas. West of Beaumont, about a hour, Houston, Texas, with a large number of excellent educational opportunities, and south of Beaumont is the Gulf of Mexico. As an institution of national regional, serve Southeast Texas, but to survive in an era of declining state funding, to overcome our losses from the effects of several destructive hurricanes, and to improve and enhance our faculty and our programs, it is clear Lamar had to go beyond our region. The service provider, Higher Ed Holdings, offers teaching platform for the delivery of Lamar master degree courses, attendance course production, and marketing services, there are three aspects of the new programming costly that our university would have difficulty providing. After extensive study and debate, a group of professors of Educational Administration and Professional Programs of Education, according to the plans to grade and course development. Education Administration worked with the existing degree plan. Professional Education after to study the current master’s programs in a primary and secondary education to enhance research and update curricula to better meet needs of current teachers. The teacher leadership program was developed and sent through the academic review and approval channels. Leadership Share educational leadership and teaching of a core of five, three time fields and each program has only 21 hours. Courses are offered in a continuous cycle with a kind of entry required offered each session. Sessions of five weeks and given the intensity, students can only take a course of a meeting. Students who choose to remain continuously enrolled can complete the sequence of 18 months. Many students choose to take any other course or delay some courses and have more time for program completion.
The faculty of Lamar University screenwriting course, visual plan, design activities, discussion forum write instructions and questions, and reading selection. In most cases, more than one of the instructors are involved in course development. The five main classes in Administration Teacher Education and are developed by leading members of at least one of Educational Leadership faculty and a professional member of the Faculty of Pedagogy. The seller, Higher Ed Holdings, help with copyright, editing, and preparing teachers for the delivery and the filming of the courses. The course content is up to the learning platform Established by the seller under the guidance of teacher development and production specialists. The Chairman of the Department reviews the course before its publication anywhere. Faculty to participate in this process have estimated that the development process takes anywhere from 200 to 300 hours. Most challenging part of the process for faculty is the thinking and planning through every aspect of the course in advance. In a traditional campus-based postgraduate course a faculty member meets regularly students once a week for 3 hours and instructional plans on a weekly basis. Faculty in distance delivery model Lamar should be very efficient and very effective plan learning activities and discussion to ensure learning outcomes of students are addressed. Because the numbers are often large, academic coaches take the role of assistant professorship in a way very similar to the kinds of large conference to a major university. Coaches are people, with at least one title master’s in education and many are pursuing or have a doctorate in education. The sellers of advertising for the coaches, but all requests for coach Lamar sent to Department Chairs for review to determine whether the applicant has the appropriate credentials.
Coaches must work through course and meet with instructors, two-way interactive video or telephone conference to be trained by the class teacher. He explains all expectations offers samples of acceptable assignments, discuss possible problems or questions students may have, and answers all the questions coach. A coach of the week / Hour of meeting is set for the instructor course sessions. A coach may request a meeting with teachers at any point of clarification assignments, issues relating to the classification, coaches etc. collected and classified the questions of students and teachers sent by email. Throughout of the meeting, faculty members monitor the discussion groups and feedback from the coaches and the classification of the assignment. Students always have right to ask the instructor to return to matters of degree and / or provide additional explanations. Once you finish the session, the instructor should verify all degrees, the search inconsistencies, collect samples of work, and provide feedback for professional development courses in the department and the Presidency. Faculty must work with the coaches and the department head to resolve conflicts grade, following the appeals process from Lamar University. Instructors must refresher training when necessary.
Lamar is successful with this program because Faculty of Education have collaborated actively and participate in continuing professional development. As indicated above, Most courses are developed by two or more teachers and in the case of basic courses at least two professors from different departments. The exchange of knowledge, ideas for learning activities, assessment and recommendations to improve the experiences of instructors involved. Each faculty member has indicated that their courses in the campus is much improved as a result of their collaboration. Bring the contents to the learning management system has also teaching faculty improved in accordance instructors involved in the process. Information and activities must be carefully oriented to learning outcomes and assignments and evaluations must be very clearly explained and designed. Knowledge of the specific demands of web-based instruction has substantially increased planning capacity of education according to the teachers participating in the Academic Association. As Lamar teachers more confidence in the delivery system, more simulations, interviews and other teaching tools are woven into the courses. As Dean, you could pay a fortune for faculty to attend workshops or to bring experts to the school and not achieving the growth knowledge and skills that the faculty is developed from the experience of participating in the Academic Association.
Benefits for students academic collaborative programs extend far beyond the affordability and accessibility. Students can access and listen to lectures as often you choose. Students script can also be downloaded and read the lectures and slides. This repetition benefits to many students and also handles a variety of modalities learning. Students have access to teachers through selected readings Lamar Library link where electronic files are stored. The readings are carefully selected to support the weekly themes and tasks and to reinforce learning. In many classrooms, student assignments require actual data collection, the data analysis, and recommendations for the campus of a student. These projects focus on the choice of problem in question and allow students to implement immediately the content they are learning. Students participate in discussion forums in each course, support one another and often learning new skills and the exchange of ideas across districts statewide. Students have personal tutoring of academic coaches and academic support staff Lamar Association and opportunities to seek clarification and explanations of teachers responsible for courses. The culminating experience portfolio in instructional leadership and practice / experiences of the portfolio in Educational Administration requires students to reflect on learning new applications of new learning, and for planning future learning activities and careers. Lifelong learning, critical thinking and creative problem solving are the results obtained by the Association Scholars.
It has also been extensive transfer operations support to students on campus. When Scholars Association began the graduate of paper files that had to be moved from office to office and control firms. The graduate admissions process is fully automated. The center original call was overwhelmed with questions and students would be sent to a large number of offices for the answers to questions, sometimes with people who do not were aware of the program. The same applies to emails. A system has been launched with the codes that direct students to the office of right to adequate assistance. The Associate Vice President / Chief Information Officer is teaching a course in the Technology Program of Educational Leadership and provide information first-hand about technological innovations to improve the program. Information Technology is assisting the university with the establishment of a database to monitor students’ evaluations of the program, progress through the program, and finally professional development. This database will serve as a important source of information to answer research questions constructed by faculty and doctoral students involved in program evaluation and study education and eLearning.
While at this point we have anecdotal records of success, we are aware that the rules on reporting Accounts require data to support such as comparisons of the allocation of students in courses that are web based and Campus-Based. We are collecting the samples. The program of Educational Administration we will soon have the first round of the state certification test data for analysis. Reviews Online courses are collected for all courses at Lamar University, web-based and Campus-Based. These evaluations will be analyzed carefully and the answers collected. We are also collecting student self-report data through a portfolio requirement completion. The evaluation process provides ongoing research opportunities for faculty and program improvement.
Where do we go from here? Our main objective is to maintain quality in courses to ensure learning outcomes, teachers enhance interactions between students and students continue to improve services. There are some additional programs studied to determine its suitability for the delivery system of Academic Association. The Lamar University faculty and staff are more intrigued by the shortcomings ethical and professional in the electronic communication of students who rarely occur with students face to face. This will be an area of future study in our research on electronic learning. Many faculty members from Lamar University education are adapting to the unique challenges of a model for academic collaboration and accept this approach as an avenue for student learning. All teachers participating in the Partnership also teach to face to face classes, are citizens of the production department, and participate in college and university service. The participation of faculty members Academic Association in showing a willingness to model lifelong learning for students and to address future trends facing higher education: the shortage of funds, a growing and increasingly diverse student population, a demand for more creative approaches to program development and the need for the currency in understanding and use of new technologies for teaching.
“There is nothing harder to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain their success to take the initiative in introducing a new order of things. “Machiavelli, The Prince
About the Author
Dr. Hollis Lowery-Moore is the dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
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