Developing Online Learning in the Helping Professions: Online, Blended, and Hybrid Models

by Angie C. Smith PhD, LCMHC-S, ACS, NCC, Jeffrey M. Warren PhD, Siu-Man Raymond Ting PhD, Jocelyn Taliaferro PhD, MSW

Overview

This hands-on guide addresses the unique challenges of educators in the helping professions who have minimal or no experience with online technologies. Written for online instructors, clinical faculty, program directors, administrators, and other educators, it describes practical and effective ways to teach material that is intrinsically based on face-to-face interaction through mediated means.

Grounded in research and the expertise of authors with years of online teaching experience, the book moves from the basics of online course delivery to more complex arenas such as preparing both instructors and students to effectively transition to online learning. The book examines a variety of online designs uniquely suited to courses in the helping professions, including such platforms as Blackboard Collaborate, Blackboard Vista, and Moodle. Moving beyond lecture-level education, the text discusses online supervision of students who are beginning field and clinical experiences, as well as ethical considerations when teaching and supervising online. Replete with abundant tips, reflective questions, checklists, timelines, and vignettes, the text also includes an entire chapter devoted to overcoming fears of the online environment for both instructor and student.

KEY FEATURES:

• Addresses the unique needs and concerns of online teaching and training in the helping professions
• Provides examples of course content at multiple levels and practice settings
• Includes practical tips, reflective questions, checklists, course design timelines, and vignettes to support the reader at all stages of teaching online
• Defines key terms and definitions
• Considers common pitfalls to avoid

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826184467
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	02/28/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	218
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Angie C. Smith, PhD, LCMHC-S, ACS, NCC, embraces multiple roles as a partner, mother, associate teaching professor, Program Coordinator at North Carolina State University, and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor-Supervisor (NC). She has been teaching online and on-campus at NC State University for thirteen years, and before joining NC State she worked in corporate environments, in college counseling academia, and in private practice.

Jeffrey M. Warren, PhD, is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Siu-Man “Raymond” Ting, PhD, is a professor of counseling, program coordinator of the counselor education program, and the Director of Graduate Programs of the Department of Education Leadership, Policy and Human Development, North Carolina State University.

Jocelyn DeVance Taliaferro, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor in the North Carolina State University Department of Social Work.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Online Teaching in the Helping Professions: Where do you fit in?

Chapter 2. Learning the Online Teaching Language: Key terms and definitions

Chapter 3. Helping the Helper: Allaying fears of the online environment

Chapter 4. Meeting Students Where They are At: Staying student focused

Chapter 5. Drawing from the Research: a cursory overview

Chapter 6. Roadmap to Online Instruction in the Helping Professions: Practical steps and considerations for success

Chapter 7. Student-focused classroom: Resources for helping your students to be successful online learners

Chapter 8. What We’ve Learned: Tips and Tricks

Chapter 9. Tips and Stories from Instructors in the Helping Professions

Chapter 10. What NOT To Do: Mistakes, Glitches, and Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Chapter 11. Ethical Considerations for Online Instruction in the Helping Professions

Chapter 12. Building Community through Intentional Design: A course model

Chapter 13. Pedagogy and Technology in the Helping Professions: Now and in the future

Chapter 14. You are a helping professional! You can do this: Conclusion and encouraging final thoughts

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Madonna K Ladouceur, RN MSN, ACNS-BC, EFM-C(Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital)
Description: Complete with added electronic resources and examples, and testimonials, this is a valuable, current guide to developing online and hybrid models of education.
Purpose: The book is timely, giving classroom educators the opportunity to learn new strategies to use for online teaching. The objectives include outlining online courses, communicating effectively with students of diverse backgrounds, engaging multiple learning styles, and helpful hints for the successful development of online learning. The authors meet these objectives with a book that covers the multiple challenges facing educators who teach in this medium.
Audience: According to the authors, the book is directed at online instructors, clinical faculty, program directors, administrators, and other educators in the helping professions. Applicable for nursing, social work, and counseling programs, the book provides tools to design effective online curricula. With over 30 years of combined experience, the authors offer their training and expertise to those wishing to build successful online programs.
Features: In its 14 chapters, the book addresses how to approach online, hybrid, and blended classroom styles. Several chapters present overarching questions that act as objectives. Vignettes and case studies throughout the book enable readers to prepare for the various scenarios they might encounter. The book also contains helpful hints on how to structure syllabi, construct assignment rubrics, and reference professional codes of ethics. Guided questions, tables, figures, and additional references make this a comprehensive guide. While the book contains a helpful index and a great deal of useful references, including practice and example lessons, the chapters do not all have the same format. As such, it is possible a reader could have difficulty finding a valuable resource.
Assessment: Overall, the quality of the book is good, as the authors cover a great deal of material in a book of manageable size and an ebook version adds useful features. There are some small areas for improvement that both versions could address in subsequent editions. Nevertheless, the book can lend much-needed help to educators looking to build successful online curricula.

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