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Abstract

With the rapid increase in online education enrollments, the need for experienced and skilled online instructors has also increased. Research confirms that novice online instructors encounter barriers to high-quality teaching, including a lack of pedagogical knowledge, skills, and low self-efficacy. Providing training and mentoring within the real-life classroom settings that novice instructors will teach, may increase novice instructors’ technical and pedagogical skills, teaching confidence (i.e., self-efficacy), and transfer of training to independent teaching. In this manuscript, the authors present a design case of an online mentoring professional development program in an authentic and real-life context to improve new online instructors’ pedagogical skills and self-efficacy for real-world transfer. To date, the mentoring program has graduated 13 mentees, with one currently still in the program. Of the 13 instructors who completed the program, 12 are currently teaching regularly for the online program.

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Title
Authentic Learning Experiences to Improve Online Instructor’s Performance and Self-Efficacy: The Design of an Online Mentoring Program
Author
Lowell, Victoria L. 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Yang, Mohan 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Purdue University, Learning, Design and Technology, West Lafayette, USA (GRID:grid.169077.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 2197) 
2  Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA (GRID:grid.261368.8) (ISNI:0000 0001 2164 3177) 
Pages
112-123
Publication year
2023
Publication date
Jan 2023
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
87563894
e-ISSN
15597075
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-022-00770-5
ProQuest document ID
2762557595
Copyright
© Association for Educational Communications & Technology 2022. Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.