“Moving Toward An Improved Pedagogy for Online Instruction: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Student Learners”

PowerPoint Presentation

Henry T. Ingle, Ph.D
Vice Chancellor, Instructional Services, Planning & Technology
San Diego Community College District

Brief Description:
The twin phenomena of a changing student demography and a growing diversity have for some time challenged the vision for “student success” in all educational institutions.

Until the very recent past, institutional responses to these two big “Ds” have largely been ineffective and at times a source of great difficulty because of the problematic challenges that abound in helping all student succeed in learning mastery. The popularity of online teaching and learning is now recasting student diversity and demography on a pathway to a more meaningful pedagogy of instruction that builds on: (1) the redefinition of the faculty role in managing online instruction; and (2) the available technological resources in a “virtual environment” that can more easily facilitate practical solutions to the challenges of differentiating and tailoring the learning processes to the needs of diverse students.

This session provides guidance for faculty genuinely concerned about meeting the needs of diverse learners. An instructional rationale is provided to alter the traditional teaching-learning paradigm as collectively, the presenter and participants examine best practices to shape a more effective pedagogy of instruction that draws on the changing demography and diversity as “enabling attributes” for promoting student success.

What specific things will attendees learn from your session?

• Provide practical guidance to improve teaching and learning with a college-age population that is highly diverse and differentiated in terms of their instructional background and needs.
• Fill a gap in the professional practice of teaching and learning that focuses on the “enabling attributes” of diversity in online and distributed instructional settings
• Invigorate the curriculum development and instructional methods that faculty can tap to better manage and promote “student success for all learners” in electronic teaching-learning environments.