Managing Online Instructor Workload: Strategies for Finding Balance and Success

by Simone C.O. Conceição, Rosemary M. Lehman

Managing Online Instructor Workload is a groundbreaking book that offers strategies, advice, illustrative examples, and a four-step process for identifying challenges and rethinking, prioritizing, managing, and balancing one's online instruction workload. Based on surveys and interviews with successful online instructors, the book is filled with timely and comprehensive insight that is essential for online instructors, instructional designers, faculty developers, and anyone who wants to succeed in online learning. Praise for Managing Online Instructor Workload "Managing Online Instructor Workload breaks the pattern of prior distance learning books with its research-based orientation by including a broad range of experience. This is a valuable resource to encourage greater faculty persistence and adoption."—Kathleen P. King, professor of higher education, University of South Florida, Tampa "This is a must-read for all online instructors who strive not only to provide a high-quality learning experience for their students but also maintain a quality life of their own!"—Rita-Marie Conrad, online educator and author "Do you teach online? Do you need sleep? Here is the first book that I know of that will allow you to do both?no more endless hours wasted online attempting to be an effective instructor."—Curtis J. Bonk, professor, Indiana University

Genres: Teaching, Education

136 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2011

Reviews

[Sher · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book and found it somewhat helpful. Very repetitive content. In the end there is no denying--teaching online takes more time than teaching in the face to face classroom. It is difficult not to be on call 24-7, and the many aspects of technology just take more time and add more complexity to the course and your workload. Managing time so that the instructor is no overwhelmed by online teaching is a serious challenge. I did discover a few helpful, new ideas in this text.