Learner Analysis -

A three pronged approach was used to identify the most compelling issues faculty face when moving from the face to face classroom to an online teaching/learning environment. The first prong a needs assessment, identified faculty support needs from multiple perspectives; faculty, faculty support staff, and administration provided input into a survey that sought to identify professional development needs in the area of online instruction.. The second prong examined current literature to see what the experts are saying. Where there a set of competencies that faculty needed in order to be effective in the online teaching/learning environment? The final or third prong used a multi-staged approach to map learner needs to research results and grant objectives to form a final document of modules to be developed by the grant.