Open AccessUCF’S EXEMPLARY FACULTY SUPPORT: AN INSTITUTIONALIZED ECOSYSTEM
Author(s) -
Barbara Truman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
online learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2472-5749
pISSN - 2472-5730
DOI - 10.24059/olj.v8i3.1824
Subject(s) - brick and mortar , excellence , metropolitan area , university faculty , faculty development , medical education , pedagogy , sociology , professional development , political science , geography , medicine , computer science , the internet , archaeology , world wide web , law
The University of Central Florida was honored to receive the 2003 Sloan-C Excellence in Online Teaching and Learning Award for Faculty Development. The environment at UCF has doubled in the last ten years with the number of students, faculty, and developing campus locations. Rapid growth in brick and mortar on campus has not deterred the creation of a robust virtual campus where students and faculty interact essentially, but in different ways. Producing the faculty support architecture to achieve UCF’s instructional potential as a metropolitan research university is a constant struggle for staff. This article describes the dynamic interplay of UCF’s emerging ecosystem of institutionalized faculty support.