Office of Faculty Development
Faculty Development Programs & Services
Faculty mentoring program
COACHE Survey:
COACHE is a collaboration of colleges and universities committed to gathering peer diagnostic and comparative data academic administrators need to recruit, retain, and develop faculty members, who are critical to the long-term future of any institution. The core element of COACHE is an electronic survey specially designed for full-time faculty members to provide information about their experiences at their institutions.
Leadership – Department Chairs
Advocacy for Faculty
Workshops
The Office of Faculty Development provides weekly workshops and webinars on different topics that will be of benefit to faculty. Through the workshops, seminars, and lectures, the Office of Faculty Development addresses teaching issues at all levels, including individual, department, curricular, and institutional. The topics range from pedagogy to technology applications to teaching and learning and are offered at various times of the day. Many of the sessions are facilitated by faculty members. A listing of all the monthly workshops is always available on the Office of Faculty Development Web site. Those interested in attending can sign up for workshops online.
Service to department
Office of Faculty Development staff can come to your department and conduct workshop sessions for faculty members in the department! Give us the topic, the number of faculty members that will be attending, and about two-week advance notice and we will come to your scheduled faculty meeting or planned workshop session and either conduct a workshop or do a presentation, based on your needs. The sessions could last from 30 minutes to 2 hours.
Consulting Services
The Office of Faculty Development consulting services are available to all FSU faculty. The Office of Faculty Development works with instructors who teach courses, and with administrators and staff who work in positions that have direct impact on the teaching and learning process. In all cases the faculty members retain ownership of their courses and the development process. When faculty members meet with Office of Faculty Development consultants, they determine the need they have, areas they need the Office of Faculty Development support, what information needs to be collected and how they plan to use the results. The consultations are voluntary, initiated by the faculty, and the services provided during consultations are confidential and shared with only the faculty client. Consultations can be provided to individual faculty, groups, departments, or at the School/College level.
Consultation topics can include, but not limited to: instructional design, instructional methods, teaching and learning with technology, assessment of student learning, developing and distributing multi-media materials for teaching and learning, teaching large classes, gathering feedback from students, developing online courses, developing hybrid courses, course delivery methods, curriculum design/redesign, syllabus review, and any other topics.
Classroom Observation
Any faculty who would like to be observed and provided feedback can contact Office of Faculty Development to schedule either a one-time classroom observation, feedback on observation, or follow-up observations. The Office of Faculty Development will arrange for video recording if applicable. All requests for classroom observations will involve a pre-observation meeting and a feedback session, and a post observation meeting with a Office of Faculty Development consultant. The feedback team will comprise an instructional designer from Office of Faculty Development and a faculty member from the faculty members department. At the end of the feedback, the instructor will receive a confidential written report of the observation. The classroom observation is voluntary and initiated by the faculty; the report is confidential and shared only with the faculty.
A limited service could be provided to those who would like to video record presentations by their students.
Lecture Series
The Faculty Lecture series features a presentation by a noted scholar on a given topic within their areas of expertise or research. It is held once a semester. The lectures are open to the entire campus and the local community.
CURRICULAR AND INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Curriculum Development
Change in curriculum can take place in different forms, including formal and informal. The process of curriculum change can be initiated by institutional administration through the office charged with curriculum development, the department, or by individual faculty or a group of faculty members. The Office of Faculty Development staff can support any of the groups formally or informally in the process of curriculum development.
Course Design
The goal of Instructional Development is to support faculty in course design: developing appropriate goals and objectives; identifying student characteristics; selecting the appropriate instructional strategies, media and technology; and the use of relevant assessment strategies. This is done to meet the needs of individual faculty members within the context of the courses and with the needs of students in mind. Instructional Development offers services that help to promote effective course planning and appropriate use of instructional strategies. It also supports the design, production, and use of instructional materials that support effective course goals and instructional strategies.
The Course Development process involves individual or group consultation with Office of Faculty Development staff. The course design could apply to designing a new course or revising an existing course. The workshops on teaching and learning introduce faculty to different teaching methods and could act as a source of inspiration for initiating a course design or redesign.
The Office of Faculty Development introduces and supports faculty in the application of instructional design process to course design. The instructional design process is one of the strategies that could help bring and encompassing solution to some of the issues that faculty face in the areas of teaching and learning. The course design support takes different forms including consultations, workshops, and provision of resources that will guide faculty at the different stages of design, development, revision, and teaching, including either an entire course or a component of a course.
Some specific areas of consultations include:
Providing guidance in creating or revising course goals and objectives to meet accreditation requirement
Provide support in exploring and using innovative teaching strategies that engage students in the learning process
Guiding faculty in the selection of appropriate media and technology for the course
Guiding faculty in the selection and use of appropriate assessment and evaluation strategies
Guiding faculty in developing fully online course and reviewing completed courses
Helping faculty in developing learning-focused syllabus
Instructional Technology
The development of courses can sometimes involve the inclusion of suitable technology or relevant media. The selection and use of any technology in a course is guided by the learning objectives set by the instructor and the availability of the technology. The technology used in the course serves as a tool to facilitate student learning. The Office of Faculty Development has a variety of technologies that can be applied to different courses and staff that can assist faculty in selecting the appropriate technology or media for their courses. The Office of Faculty Development staff offer regular hands-on workshops, seminars, and individual consultation on a wide range of topics related to the selection and effective use of technology in teaching and learning. Some faculty members from time to time will also share their experience in the use of specific technologies with others.
Support provided by the Office of Faculty Development in the selection and use of instructional technologies include design, development, and management of online and face-to-face courses, podcasting, student response systems (clickers), ePortfolio, creating video clips or audio files, scanning documents to PDF or an editable format, creating PowerPoint presentations, and using other software such as, Adobe Connect, Photoshop, Articulate, Dreamweaver, SPSS, Adobe Acrobat, Respondus, Captivate, MovieMaker, Audacity, Visual Communicator, and others. The Office of Faculty Development staff can answer a wide range of faculty questions on the effective use of technology in teaching and learning.
Media Design
The Office of Faculty Development staff also provides limited support in media production. Services provided include:
Video and audio recording
Digital video/audio editing
CD ROM/DVD authoring
Photography and digital imaging
Graphic design solutions
Podcasting
Image preparation for instruction and publication