August 10, 2001
Maryland Colleges Train Professors to Teach Online
Talk about "sink or swim." Professors are often given little or no training before teaching their first online course.
But in Maryland, 23 colleges that hope to prepare faculty members better for online education have set up a consortium that runs joint training programs and develops materials to help professors bring their courses into cyberspace.
The group, called the Faculty Online Technology Training Consortium, offered its first intensive training program last summer,
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