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Many departments encourage sharing and adoption of effective online education practices within the department through various meetings, communication channels, and online resources, while also encouraging faculty to engage in college and external professional learning opportunities. Examples include:

Provide professional learning experiences related to online instruction by the department, for the department.
- In-depth, extended discipline-oriented online professional learning experiences (General non-credit, Letters)
- Occasional intra-department professional learning opportunities (History)
- Training sessions at department meetings (Business Administration, Psychology)
Have a process for onboarding and/or mentoring faculty new to teaching online.
- A few faculty have been trained for teaching online and they share their best practices, including their course design and online pedagogy. (Math)
- Meeting faculty where they were, and not beating them up for knowing nothing about how to use Canvas or how to teach online; walking them through the basic features in Canvas and just pretty much one-on-one or in small groups, teaching them via Zoom or phone calls, how to use the most useful Canvas features to transition to online. (Horticulture)
- Chair holds monthly "office hours" on Zoom to provide help to faculty with online instruction challenges (General non-credit)
- Meet with associate faculty over Zoom to assist with courses. (KHAN)
- Encourage faculty to seek assistance from online mentors and the instructional designer (Business Administration)
Provide/forward information about and encourage attendance at online education professional development opportunities such as local Flex workshops and external conferences. This could be department-wide sharing and/or specific encouragement to individual faculty who have identified specific goals for improvement of online instruction. (History, Communication, Design)
Offer a virtual hallway conversation framework to promote more collaboration; the department is "constantly talking about and exploring ways to make the quality of our online pedagogy effective and engaging." (Letters)
Discuss online teaching-related topics at department meetings (see page B.6 for topic examples) (CSIT, Sociology, KHAN, Psychology, Design, Philosophy, Business Administration, Math)
Share Robert Kelley's helpful YouTube playlist of Canvas course design in the department Canvas page as well as our own instructional videos for online teaching. (KHAN, Psychology)
Encourage faculty to get training for online teaching, and do "in-house" departmental training led by an experienced faculty member. (Psychology)

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