Doing faculty work online can be both challenging and exciting, with great opportunity for innovation. The CFI wishes to be responsive to faculty needs regarding online teaching, scholarship, and career planning. Here is a list of valuable resources:
Recorded or Asynchronous CFI Sessions
Editorial Insight into Publishing Journal Articles (Online Roundtable). Demystify the journal article publication process in a dialogue with editors from diverse journals. Facilitated by Melanie Shoffner, COE, Cathryn Molloy, CAL, Charles Bailey, COB, and Ed Brantmeier, CFI & COE. You will need to log into JMU's techsmithrelay to view this session. Recorded on Thu 10/14/21.
Supporting Your Research, Scholarship, and Creative Endeavors (Online Scholarly Talk). JMU Research & Scholarship, the Center for Faculty Innovation, and JMU Libraries provide an overview of scholarship support resources for faculty. Video provided by JMU's Office of Research & Scholarship.
Recommended Online Resources
The Center for Faculty Innovation team has curated a list of helpful articles from trusted sources below.
Teaching Resources
- For AUHs: Supporting Faculty Teaching during COVID-19
- 5 Low-Tech, Time-Saving Ways to Teach Online During Covid-19, Chronicle of Higher Education
- Corona Virus Article Collection, Chronicle on Higher Education
- COVID-19 Archives, The Teaching Professor (JMU Libraries Subscription)
- Expanding Leadership Education: Teaching Service-Learning Online, ILA Member Connector, 2016 Issue 6.
- Going Online in a Hurry, Chronicle of Higher Education, Michelle Miller
- Rule of 2’s: Keeping it Simple as You Go Remote for COVID19
- Being Human in a Time of Crisis, Donna Lanclos
- On Care & Continuity in the Times of Coronavirus, Maha Bali
- Times Which Require Greater Care: Ethos in Online Learning, Sean Michael Morris
- ADA Compliance for Online Course Design, Sheryl Burgstahler
- The Universal Design Guidelines
- Aligning Assignments With Learning Goals, DePaul University
- Best Practices for Online Lectures, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Work-life Integration and Career Planning Resources
- How to Make a Video Call that Reduces Stress, Maha Bali
- Your Surge Capacity is Depleted-Its Why Your Feel Awful, Tara Haelle
- We need to talk: gender, bias and best practices for supporting academic parents, Kerry F. Crawford (JMU) and Leah Windsor
- 6 steps to running the perfect 30-minute meeting, Jimmy Sjölund
- The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track, Amy Gallo
- 9 ways to fix awful virtual meetings, Stephanie Overby
- Anti-Opression Facilitation for Democratic Process: Making Meetings Awesome for Everyone, AORTA (Anti-Opression Resource & Training Alliance)
- Contemplative Practices for Self-Care (recorded Zoom session)
- For Parents as Teachers and K-12 Educators
- The Calm Place, The New York Times
- 10 Well-Being Tips During the Days of COVID-19, Center for Healthy Minds at University of Wisconson-Madison
Scholarship Resources
- Staying Connected with Your Scholarship while Social Distancing, CFI Scholarship Area Team
- Faculty Welcome--Supporting your Research, Scholarship, and Creative Endeavors
- JMU Research and Scholarship Support Resources—Offices/Units
- Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Center for Engaged Learning
- Recorded sessions
- Prioritizing Scholarship among Competing Demands, Dayna Henry
- Qualitative Data Analysis Guide from JMU Libraries
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at JMU