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Virtual Instructor Dispositions and Personalities
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
The objective of this research is to understand what attracts educators to online learning formats and the relationship between personality, teacher effectiveness, and job satisfaction.
Target Audience
Practitioners, professors, and graduate students who are interested in online learning, instructor effectiveness, and student success.
Learning Outcomes
The participants will gain knowledge and understanding about the relationship between personality and online teaching. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their perspectives and how the presented research could be applied to other settings to help facilitators cultivate change, and recruit and develop effective and satisfied online educators.
Session Description
Globally, post-secondary education is changing. Universities, both public and private, are offering increasing numbers of courses delivered through a variety of electronic methods (virtual mediated instruction). Researchers have long studied the impact of this delivery method on students’ performance and have developed numerous instruments to assess student readiness and potential success in the virtual classroom, yet only limited research has been conducted to assess the personal attributes and personality traits of the instructors teaching in the virtual classroom, beyond assessing their comfort and knowledge of the technology itself. The presentation will address trends in the literature on virtual instruction, and results from an exploratory study on online instructor personalities and dispositions.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Thursday November 7