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Abstract
As the number and type of student enrolled in one or more online courses continues to grow, there is an inevitable impact to the institutions and instructors who must reform their practices to remain successful. This quantitative correlational study used self-efficacy theory as a foundation to examine whether and to what extent a relationship exists between amount of prior online or face-to-face experience, satisfaction with preparation and support for online teaching, and sense of efficacy beliefs for 84 faculty teaching introductory courses online at a large university in the Southwest. The Michigan Nurse Educators Sense of Efficacy for Online Teaching (MNESEOT) scale survey was used to evaluate university faculty judgments about their ability to enact meaningful student engagement and learning mastery in the online classroom. A series of Pearson product-moment correlation analyses suggested a relationship exists between individuals’ sense of efficacy belief scores and two predictor variables of years of online teaching experience (r(82) = .360, p < .001) and satisfaction with preparation and support for online teaching in the form of courses and seminars (r(64) = .548, p < .001). There was no apparent relationship between prior traditional face-to-face teaching experience and current sense of efficacy belief when faculty taught introductory courses online. The results of this study are relevant for postsecondary leaders seeking to grow their online course offerings. Institutional leaders should be aware that traditional campus faculty who are transitioning to teach online may face challenges to remaining successful unless they feel sufficiently prepared and supported.