This interactive workshop introduces the audience to a diagnostic framework of use for faculty evaluation and mentoring efforts to enhance distance education in higher education. The Teaching Enhancement Protocol (TEP) framework is the result of consensus efforts by faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Education across a two-year period that identified essential components of online teaching leading to enhanced learner experiences and outcomes. The tool provides ratings across essential components of teaching and may be used to evaluate elements at the course level or as a broader measure across courses. It is especially helpful as a diagnostic instrument in supporting faculty understanding and awareness of best practices. TEP permits the identification of relative strengths and areas for improvement in teaching and allows for the monitoring of progress in specific areas acrosstime. TEP has been found to be useful as a framework for mentoring faculty new to distance education and as an assessment device for evaluating effectiveness of new instructional strategies and approaches.

Workshop Organisers: Christina Harnett, Christine Eith, Norma Day-Vines, Kelly Cooney

Published in: Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2024)

• Date of Conference: 2-4 April, 2024
• DOI: 10.20533/IICE.2024.0002
• ISBN: 978-1-913572-70-9
• Conference Location: Dún Laoghaire, Ireland