Eva, Having completed one of these "asynchronous" January workshop courses myself, I wanted to provide some perspective for those considering registering, and feedback for you to communicate to those who organize them. I had some experience with Blackboard before the course itself - I guess I am pretty proficient now in benefiting from the advantages of Blackboard while minimizing the extra time involved in using the system. I do continue to use Blackboard because I think it helps students by providing easy access to audiovisual material online. Despite this experience, much of which I had beforehand, I found the compensation offered (for 10 hours over 2 wks) woefully undervalues and understates the minimal time required: it is more like 20 hours simply to meet the very basic expectations of participation in the workshop. It is great that CUNY is providing these opportunities for professional development in using online resources. It is very unfortunate that the university seems to see hybrid/online offerings as a way of providing courses on the cheap without addressing the very real extra time demands on faculty for implementing such courses. Setting realistic time and compensation values for these workshops and assigning extra faculty workload hours for hybrid and online courses would go a long way toward correcting these problems. Tim On 12/8/2012 3:00 PM, Eva Fernandez wrote:

Dear colleagues:

Registration is now open for a workshop on teaching online, scheduled for January 7 to 21 (2013), offered by the CUNY School of Professional Studies and sponsored by the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs. This workshop, taught entirely online, offers foundational training for faculty who will be teaching an online or hybrid class.

Your commitment to teach an online or hybrid course must be firm, and must be approved by your departmental chair. Compensation (if you complete the workshop and are scheduled to teach an online or hybrid course) is for 10 hours at your non-teaching adjunct rate (with a maximum total of $550).

A detailed description of the workshop and application materials are available here:

http://cunyonline.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best wishes,

Eva.

Eva M. Fernández Assistant Vice Provost Director, Center for Teaching & Learning http://people.qc.cuny.edu/faculty/efernandez | http://www.qc.cuny.edu/ctl Queens College, City University of New York

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