Distance Learning Boot Camp: Building Quality Online Courses

Since July 2009, Coastal Carolina University’s faculty technology development center has been offering a distance learning boot camp to faculty members. During this time, approximately 70 faculty members have been trained in ten sessions of our boot camp. This session will chronicle how this program has evolved from a face-to-face, week-long session in the summer to a variety of delivery formats to meet the needs of our faculty. Distance Learning Boot Camp is now available as a “mini-camp,” a workshop series, in hybrid format, in webinar format and completely online. In September 2011, Coastal Carolina became a Quality Matters institution and the boot camp sessions were aligned to the Quality Matters rubric standards. Additionally a corresponding website (http://libguides.coastal.edu/distancelearningbootcamp) was developed through LibGuides on the Kimbel Library’s website to make current version of documents available to faculty as a resource. Data will be presented on types of sessions and participant satisfaction survey results compiled from all boot camp sessions.