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General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

//Teresa Huether, Saint Louis Community College, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, thuether@stlcc.edu Niares Hunn, Saint Louis Community College, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA,// nhunn1@stlcc.edu
 * Virtual Professional Development: Virtual Office Hours & Online Tutoring**

Technology is changing rapidly and the rate of change is accelerating, affecting the interplay between integration and implementation between students, faculty, and staff. In the eye of the storm is faculty who must learn and apply technology in their classrooms, actively engage students, and achieve designated learning outcomes with very limited amount of time for professional development. Faculty must engineer the best instructional strategies and technology to construct a learning experience that is rich and robust for their academic discipline. It is proposed that one avenue to ensure faculty professional development is to offer virtual professional development. As the panel descriptions indicate, online, hybrid, blended or other modes of technology enhance learning. It is thus increasingly necessary for faculty to receive professional development since it is a key factor in producing and maintaining high quality instruction and tech savvy educators. Also, faculty need time to collaborate, share ideas, time to revise curriculum, and to consider how to incorporate their insights into their academic disciplines. More generally, by focusing on these intersections, the conference will engender discussion and analysis that will interest educators, practitioners, and scholars with a wide range of practical and scholarly interests.

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