COLLABORATION IN AN ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROGRAM

Asynchronous online courses generally provide little opportunity for students to collaborate with peers. In a typical asynchronous course, work fairly independently and the main interaction peers is in discussion forums. Yet, professional standards teachers school leaders recognize collaborating stakeholders as significant responsibility (InTASC, 2013; Professional Standards Education Leaders, 2015). Acknowledging this, we wanted candidates an authentic experience communicating working teams, simultaneously make their coursework more interactive. This paper presentation will focus on how faculty education program addressed this problem of practice. It also describe steps taken identify redesign assignments that could become collaborative projects place independent student work. The results several semesters feedback from who were required teams complete be presented.