title: Online faculty development for creating E-learning materials.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Faculty who want to develop e-learning materials face pedagogical challenges of transforming instruction for the online environment, especially as many have never experienced online learning themselves. They face technical challenges of learning new software and time challenges of not all being able to be in the same place at the same time to learn these new skills. The objective of the Any Day Any Place Teaching (ADAPT) faculty development program was to create an online experience in which faculty could learn to produce e-learning materials.
  
  
  METHODS
  The ADAPT curriculum included units on instructional design, copyright principles and peer review, all for the online environment, and units on specific software tools. Participants experienced asynchronous and synchronous methods, including a learning management system, PC-based videoconferencing, online discussions, desktop sharing, an online toolbox and optional face-to-face labs. Project outcomes were e-learning materials developed and participants' evaluations of the experience. Likert scale responses for five instructional units (quantitative) were analyzed for distance from neutral using one-sample t-tests. Interview data (qualitative) were analyzed with assurance of data trustworthiness and thematic analysis techniques.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants were 27 interprofessional faculty. They evaluated the program instruction as easy to access, engaging and logically presented. They reported increased confidence in new skills and increased awareness of copyright issues, yet continued to have time management challenges and remained uncomfortable about peer review. They produced 22 new instructional materials.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Online faculty development methods are helpful for faculty learning to create e-learning materials. Recommendations are made to increase the success of such a faculty development program.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Niebuhr
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Niebuhr
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trumble
authors.forename: Mary Jo
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Urbani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D005178:Faculty / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006281:Health Occupations / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D058025:Interdisciplinary Studies / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015397:Program Evaluation; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D013664:Teaching Materials / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States