What Motivates Faculty to Teach in Distance Education?

Ruth Gannon-Cook

doi:10.5771/9780761853701

Summary

What Motivates Faculty to Teach in Distance Education? provides seminal data on what has been found to best motivate faculty to teach online. This information is critical to most universities because, in order to stay competitive, many will increase their online course offerings. Faculty will be needed to design and teach these programs.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5369-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5370-1
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 255
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
4. The Author No access
1. Conceptual Framework No access
2. Motivational Theory No access
3. Management Theory No access
4. Diffusion of Technology No access
5. Statement of the Problem No access
6. Statement of the Purpose No access
7. Organization of the Study No access
1. 1. Distance Education as Defined in This Book No access
2. History of Distance Education No access
3. Research in Distance Education No access
4. 1. Management Theories No access
  2. 1. 1. Ivan Pavlov No access
      2. B.F. Skinner No access
      3. Abraham Maslow No access
      4. Frederick Herzberg No access
      5. Victor Vroom No access
      6. Edward Deci No access
    2. 1. Intrinsic Motivation No access
      2. Extrinsic Motivation No access
    3. Motivating and Demotivating Factors that Affect Employees No access
  3. Change and Technology Diffusion Theories No access
  4. 1. Adoptive Behaviors No access
1. 1. Findings of the Study No access
  2. Other Findings No access
2. 1. Southeast Public University Study No access
  2. Western University Study No access
3. 1. 1. General Distance Education Compensation Models No access
    2. Increasing Use of Adjuncts for Distance Education Courses No access
  2. 1. Other University Informal Distance Education Compensation Policies No access
    2. Components of DE Design, Delivery, and Instruction No access
    3. Typical Compensation for Developing and/or Teaching Distance Education No access
  3. Examples of International Distance Education Compensation Practices No access
4. 1. Intrinsic Motivators No access
  2. 1. 1. Studies of DE and Recommendations of Possible Tenure Policies No access
      2. Distance Education as Scholarly Activity No access
      3. Tenure as Faculty Reward for Participation in DE No access
      4. Potential Problems for Tenure-Track Faculty and Tenure No access
    2. Copyright Ownership and Royalties as DE Motivators No access
    3. Faculty Compensation or Release Time as DE Motivators No access
    4. Administrative Support as DE Motivator No access
  3. Findings of Research Conducted as the Universities Cited in this Study No access
5. 1. The Growing Trend of Using Adjunct and Non-Tenure Track Faculty No access
6. 1. Technology Training No access
  2. Administrative Faculty Support No access
  3. Collaboration and Team Building No access
7. 1. Faculty Resistance No access
  2. Faculty Retention No access
  3. Organizational Maturity No access
  4. Administrative Pressures No access
  5. Authentic Participation No access
  6. Faculty Voice No access
8. Summary No access
1. Overview No access
2. The Research Question No access
3. Participants No access
4. Demographics No access
5. Survey Questions Targeted to Address Faculty Attitudes No access
6. Data Collection Procedures No access
7. Data Analysis Procedures No access
8. Instrumentation No access
9. Reliability No access
10. 1. Missing Data No access
11. 1. 1. Criteria for Selection of Principal Components Analysis No access
    2. Normality and Linearity of Variables No access
    3. Absence of Multicollinearity and Singularity No access
    4. Outliers among Variables No access
    5. 1. Oblique Rotation No access
      2. Orthogonal Rotation No access
      3. Kaiser-Varimax Rotation No access
        Scree Test No access
        Kaiser's Stopping Rule No access
        Percentage of Variance No access
        Adequacy of Extraction No access
    6. Summary No access
    7. 1. Multivariate Regression No access
      2. Discriminant Function Analysis No access
      3. Logistic Regression Analysis No access
      4. Sequential Logistic Regression Model Testing No access
      5. First Level: Hierarchical Tests to Asses the Contribution of Each Block No access
      6. Second Level: Goodness of Fit Model Test No access
      7. The Chi-Square Statistic for Overall Fit Test No access
        Test for the Proportion of Cases Correctly Predicted No access
        Pseudo R2 Test for Goodness of Fit No access
      8. Summary Statistics for Evaluating the Sequential Logistic Regression Model No access
        Indicators of Goodness of Fit of the Model No access
12. Summary No access
1. 1. Distance Education Motivators No access
  2. Distance Education Inhibitors No access
  3. Motivator and Inhibitor Response Patterns No access
  4. Reliability No access
2. 1. 1. Scree Tests No access
    2. Choice of PCA No access
  2. 1. Factor One: Traditional Staff Service No access
    2. Factor Two: Monetary Rewards No access
    3. Factor Three: Insufficient Rewards No access
    4. Factor Four: Technical and Administrative Support No access
    5. Factor Five: Job Advancement Requirements No access
    6. Factor Six: Professional Quality No access
    7. Factor Seven: Professional Prestige No access
    8. Factor Eight: Bad Press No access
    9. Factor Nine: Personal Benefits No access
  3. Analysis of Patterns in PCA No access
  4. PCA Summary No access
3. 1. Summary No access
1. Study Retrospective No access
2. Survey Implications No access
3. Survey Limitations No access
4. Data Analysis No access
5. Survey Findings No access
6. 1. Intrinsic Motivation No access
  2. Extrinsic Motivation No access
  3. Faculty Demotivators No access
  4. Other Faculty Considerations No access
7. DE Survey Response Patterns No access
8. 1. Relevance of Business-Related Research to Survey No access
9. 1. The Eastern Urban Private University Study No access
  2. Eastern Public University Study No access
  3. Southern Public University Study No access
  4. Comparison of the Three Universities' Findings No access
10. Unexpected Results No access
11. 1. Royalties for Copyrighted Materials No access
  2. Institutional Distance Education Training No access
  3. Job Security as a Predictor of Faculty Participation in DE No access
  4. Technical Support by Institution No access
12. Discussion No access
13. The PCA Findings Compared to Action Research No access
14. Recommendations No access
15. Implications for Future Research No access
16. Implications for Practice No access
17. Implications for Practice and Policy for Institutions of Higher Education No access
18. Summary No access
Appendices No access Pages 159 - 216
Bibliography No access Pages 217 - 248
Index No access Pages 249 - 255