An Analysis of Career Building Tools for Online Adjunct Faculty: The Sustainable Effects of Adjunct...

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An Analysis of Career Building Tools for Online Adjunct Faculty: The Sustainable

Effects of Adjunct Publishing

2013 Association of Continuing Higher Education Conference

Lexington, KYNovember 4-6, 2013

Presenters: Dustin Bessette, Kim L. Brown-Jackson, and Sharon L. Burton

2 © 2013 The National Graduate School of Quality Management


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Kim L. Brown-Jackson Doctoral Student

National Graduate School of Quality [email protected] (Office)

Dustin Bessette Doctoral Student

National Graduate School of Quality Management

[email protected]

518-965-0775 (Office)

Sharon L. BurtonDoctoral Student

National Graduate School of Quality [email protected] (Office)

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AbstractThe value of adjunct online professors has gradually increased at many institutions. This increase of faculty also helps the reputation of the institution by adding professionals whose backgrounds create a diverse interest for department chairs and add collective data from several fields. Tenured faculty are known for their valuable publishing in top tier journals and their intellectual knowledge of various subjects. Published works assist online adjunct faculty in gaining and receiving various incentives that help them pursue advances within their departments. The main problem lies within certain incentives and how online adjunct faculty are able to advance based upon receiving these benefits. Online adjunct faculty currently does not receive the same incentives and benefits as that of tenured traditional faculty. This incentives and benefits problem causes variations that create negative bias against online adjunct faculty within academic departments. To assist professionals in terms of advancement and institutional reputation, publishing and receiving recognition is one of the most valued items that any one professional can receive. The main focus of this paper is to assist the audience‘s perception of the value of publishing in the academic arena through the lens of online adjunct faculty. The researchers will locate operational focal points requiring business process improvements that institutions can embrace to enhance incentives and performance of online adjunct faculty. Some of the focused items will be the following; conference reimbursement, quality of information collected, types of published work, reputation of journals, quality of published work, and how institutions can best use adjunct faculty members published works.Key Words: Online Adjunct Faculty, Publishing, Associate Faculty, Sustainable Affects


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Agenda

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1. Statement of the Problem2. Purpose of the Paper3. Frameworks4. Incentives and Compensation5. Quality Publishing6. Publishing Options 7. Conclusions8. Questions and Answers



Purpose and Audience Purpose: The purpose of this study was to review the value of publishing in the academic arena through the lens of online adjunct faculty

Audience: Organizations and individuals interested in publishing and winning the publish or perish battle

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Objectives

Objectives: Provide audiences with guidance to enhance:

Publishing Footprint Educational Prowess Business Process Improvement Framework: Adult Learning/Andragogy, Distance Learning, Basic Learning Theories, Business Process Improvement

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Incentives and Compensation In today’s models online faculty’s inherent online teaching rewards overshadows incentives and compensation. The amount of chief academic officers stating that online education is significant to their continuing strategy increased in “2010 and 2011” (Allen et al., 2011, p. 4).

While the chief academic officers’ statements reflect data from the latest survey; incentive and compensation practice is in opposition.

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Incentives and Compensation Many institutions of higher education in the United States, calculate faculty load in the number of semester credit hours taught. On the other hand the amount of time it takes to prepare for online sessions remains a concern. This perception of taking more time to teach online as opposed to face-to-face is noted in surveys and qualitative interview studies (Haber & Mills, 2008; Seaman, 2009; Bolliger & Waslik, 2009; Van De Dord & Korolyn, 2012; Allen et al., 2013).

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Quality PublishingQuality publishing is academically researching and analyzing sets of data that correlate to specific problems that are being address. What makes the articles quality is the fact that problems are thoroughly researched for all possible solutions.

The notion of value creation by scholarly publishers has been a hotly debated issue over the past decade (Fund, 2013). With this growing need of academic scholarship comes an increase of online adjunct faculty in the higher education departments.

Online adjunct faculty have both the professional and academic experience and backgrounds to work in academia at various levels. This is what makes online adjunct faculty prominent in the success of institutions and their development for career and human resource networking.

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Conference ProceedingsConference proceeding: “Is a collection of documents, paper or electronic which corresponds to the technical presentations given at the conference along with additional information, such as title and copyright information, that identifies the collection as a set or connected group” (IEEE, 2013).

These papers are usually gathered by publishing venues organized by an associate editor and colleagues.

Apart from this, these papers are organized and reviewed for collaborative matter that proceeds education.

Research papers that are contributed to a body of knowledge for study are published here.



JournalsAcademic journals come in a wide variety of platforms (digital and book) as they can be sold and accessed by many persons.

Quality research is peer-reviewed for academic flaws and errors from many editors and reviewers. Based on the number of reviewers, this is what makes journal publishing high quality and high in merit.

Open access journals are being used and adapted by many classrooms based that information is easily to access for all viewers.

Open Access (OA) is a model for publishing scholarly peer reviewed journals, made possible by the Internet (Laasko, 2011).

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Book Chapters

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Large amounts of merit is based off of this type of academic work based that it is one of the hardest to achieve and accomplish.

Non-academic books are still widely used in academia today.

Based on the literacy vale that these books have, they can be attributed into both traditional and non-traditional classrooms.

It’s not impossible for online adjunct faculty to establish this type of work ethic for themselves, nor is it uncommon.



Newsletter

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Newsletters can be addressed to cover specific needs of academic and current higher educational affairs that are of topic for departments. Traditional tools measuring traffic performance as the number of visitors to a website and page views are no longer sufficient specifically for brand websites (Flores, 2004).

Within the educational arena is the goal to ensure faculty can perform to the best of their abilities by providing them with education on the latest tools, tips, and educational technologies (Burton, et al, 2013).

With the help of each of these tools, online adjunct faculty can development secure ways and tactics for career advancements.



Conclusions

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Many methods can be altered and used as they are also vital components in the real world settings that online adjunct faculty work in.

Enhancing the quality of business processes improvement (BPI) and preserving satisfactory levels of performance quality are key aspects in the goals and objectives of institutions. BPI is an orderly method to assist businesses in improving their underlying processes to realize more efficient outcomes (Pyzdek, 2003).

A void of a clearly articulated teaching methodology for distance education lent itself to additional trials to distance education instructors. Many faculty development programs remain void of adult learning academic context (Parra, 2010).



Conclusions

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Voids in processes stem out of poor practices or no practices.

Solid business process improvement methodology leads to good quality results.

When quality publishing is reevaluated and used to assist online adjunct faculty, it can be noted that research is published based on its merit.

Quality of each paper is valued and weighed accordingly to show how effective and efficient researchers are using frameworks and methods to collect significant data.



Questions

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References

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Allen, I., Seaman, J., Sloan, C., Babson Survey Research, G., & Pearson, F. (2013). Changing course: Ten years of tracking online education in the United States. Sloan Consortium. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED541571.pdf

Allen, I., Seaman, J., & Sloan, C. (2011). Going the Distance:

Online Education in the United States, 2011. Sloan Consortium. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED529948.pdf

Bollinger, D. & Waslik, O. (2009). Factors influencing faculty

satisfaction with online teaching and learning in higher education. Distance Education, 30, 103-116.

Burton, S., Bessette, D., & Brown-Jackson, K. (2013). Breaking down the knowledge barrier o cost-benefit factors in todays technological era,. EDULEARN13 Proceedings, 1188-1191.

Flore`s, L. (2004)10 Facts about the value of brand websites,

Admap, February



References

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Haber, J. & Mills, M. (2008). Perceptions of barriers concerning effective online teaching and policies: Florida Community College faculty. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 3, 266-283.

IEEE (2013) Conference proceedings defined, retrieved from;

http://www.ieee.org/documents/confprocdefined.pdf Laakso M, Welling P, Bukvova H, Nyman L, Björk B-C, et al. (2011)

The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009. PLoS ONE 6(6): e20961. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020961

Miller, M. H. (2010). Distance education’s rate of growth doubles at community college. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/distance-educations-rate-of-growth-doubles-at-community-college/22540

Parker, K., Lenhart, A., & Moore, K. (2011). The digital revolution and

higher education College presidents, public differ on value of online learning. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center.



References

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Seaman, J., (2009). Online learning as a strategic asset. Volume II: The paradox of faculty voices: Views and experiences with online learning. Washington, D.C.: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. Retrieved from http://www.aplu.org/document.doc?id=1879

Van De Vord, R., & Korolyn, P. (2012). Teaching Time Investment:

Does Online Really Take More Time than Face-to-Face? The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 13(3), 132-146.

Yacci, M. (2000). Interactivity demystified: A structural

definition for distance education and intelligent CBT. Education Technology, (40)4, 5-16.

Young, J. R. (2011). College presidents are bullish on online

education but face a skeptical public. The Chronicles of Higher Education. Retrieved from

http://chronicle.com/article/College-Presidents-Are-Bullish/128814/



Dustin Bessette’s Profile Bessette currently serves in the Oregon State Office of Parks Historic Preservation. He previously led training for New York State’s lifeguarding staff through various process of employment, tested lifeguard's through controlled physical tests, conducted field visits, recorded aquatic reports, and assisted in hiring & coordinating employees in four different parks for five different swimming facilities.

Academically, Bessette is currently a doctoral student with the National Graduate School of Quality Systems Management earning a doctorate degree in business administration. He has earned two undergraduate degrees, one Associate of Sciences in Biology and Chemistry and a Bachelor of Science in Real Estate Studies. Further he has earned 30 credit hours towards a Sustainable MBA degree and is enrolled and in process of another graduate MBA degree.

He has presented at several conferences including, Intellectbase International Consortium (Nashville 2011, Atlanta 2011, and Las Vegas 2012), Eco Summit 2012 (Cleveland, OH), Association for Advancement Computing Information (AACE) (Montreal, QC), virtually presented at the 5th Annual International Conference on Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI) (Madrid, Spain), Society for Applied Learning Technologies (SALT) Conference (Orlando, FL) in March 2013, Florida Academy of Sciences (Miami, FL) in March 2013, and virtually at the 7th International Technology, Education, and Development (INTED) (Valencia, Spain) in March 2013.

Bessette has also published in peer reviewed journals for the Intellectbase International Consortium as well as reviewed graduate work for the Academy of Management.

Bessette lives in upstate New York in the Hudson valley Region just west of the Massachusetts Berkshires.

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Kim L. Brown-Jackson’s Profile Brown-Jackson has over 18 years of leadership expertise in quality, training, program, project, and curriculum management. Previously she was the director for product development in a financial management division for a training company. She has also been a learning and human capital strategist and project manager. Brown-Jackson holds certifications in Kirkpatrick Four Levels Evaluation, quality improvement (CQIA) and greenbelt experience, advanced instructional design/development, leadership, performance management, and diversity.

Academically, Brown-Jackson is a doctoral student and adjunct faculty for The National Graduate School – Quality Management. She holds a MSc. in Biomedical Sciences with additional coursework towards a Ph.D. and a MBA certificate. She holds a B.A. in Biological Sciences from Clemson University, cluster minor in Business Administration and language emphasis- Japanese. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship and holds an A.S. in Biotechnology and Forensic Science from Massachusetts Bay Community College (joint ventures at Boston University and University of Massachusetts). Brown-Jackson has prior experience as a scientist, corporate trainer, business/financial analyst, information consultant; human/financial resources.

Brown-Jackson was featured in the April 2013 edition of American Society of Quality, Quality Progress Journal as the Who’s Who in Q. Brown-Jackson has presented at numerous conferences. She has co-authored and/or virtually presented at the 5th Annual International Conference on Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI) (Madrid, Spain), Florida Academy of Sciences (Miami, FL) in March 2013, and virtually at the 7th International Technology, Education, and Development (INTED) (Valencia, Spain) in March 2013. She has served as peer reviewer for Academy of Management, Academic Reviewer for Academic Business World, and the International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education.

Brown-Jackson, a Distinguished Toastmaster, lives in Upper Marlboro, MD with her husband, dog Joshua, and has two adult step-children.

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Sharon L. Burton’s Profile Burton is a Human Capital Strategist and Learning consultant. She leads human capital, training, leadership, customer service, and diversity initiatives in consulting, and has published two books, “Quality Customer Service: Rekindling the Art of Service to Customers,” and “Diversity: Just What Is It And Why Does It Keep Changing?” Burton’s professional background includes standing up the Operations Training, and the Quality Assurance and Compliance departments for a major financial institution. Her research can be seen at academia.edu and researchgate.net.

Burton holds two Masters of Business Administration degrees (Human Resources Management, and Management) from the American InterContinental University. She received a B.S. degree from Florida State University in Criminology where she concentrated and interned in crime scene investigation and forensics.

Academically, Burton is presently a doctoral student with the National Graduate School of Quality Management. Burton holds two certifications, Human Capital Strategy and Kirkpatrick Four Levels Evaluation, as well as a certificate in training. Sharon has presented at numerous conferences: Cognition Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age, October 2013 (Ft. Worth, TX), Society for Applied Learning Technologies Conference August 2011 (Reston, VA), March 2013 (Orlando, FL), August 2013 (Reston, VA); Florida Academy of Sciences (Miami, FL) in March 2013, virtually at the 7th International Technology, Education, and Development (INTED) (Valencia, Spain) in March 2013; Toastmasters International District 36 Spring Conference 2011, the National Association for Black Accountants Conference 2008, and the Delaware Youth Summit 2008.

Burton, an Advanced Communicator Gold Toastmaster, lives in Wilmington, Delaware. She has one daughter, Yoshino Woodard White, who is an Industrial Engineer.

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Thank you for joining us!

Kim L. Brown-Jackson Doctoral Student


[email protected] (Office)

Dustin Bessette Doctoral Student

National Graduate School of Quality [email protected] 518-965-0775 (Office)

Sharon L. BurtonDoctoral Student


[email protected] (Office)

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