Findings: Best Practices Asynchronous

Among the best practices we identified:

• Identify and address licensing constraints with vendors
• Begin faculty joint planning at least one full semester before offering
• Share teaching styles and important areas of instruction for each individual
• Review assessment options and priorities (develop shared syllabus)
• Work out details of responding to students in advance
• Which faculty member responds at what time to which students (anytime? All?)
• Pre-plan how to handle disagreements between students – disagreements between faculty
• Establish parallel schedules for responses, posting of grades, etc.
• Plan for plenty of sidebar discussions via email/phone between faculty members (weekly or more often) - perhaps using wikis or Google docs