Date of Award
12-2018
Culminating Project Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Higher Education Administration: Ed.D.
Department
Educational Administration and Higher Education
College
School of Education
First Advisor
Michael Mills
Second Advisor
Steven McCullar
Third Advisor
Kelly Crue
Fourth Advisor
Timothy Baker
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
Online, faculty, teaching, motivation
Abstract
Online education has become a staple in the American higher education system. A shortage of qualified and motivated online instructors exists as online learning demand increases. The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify why faculty members are not motivated to teach online courses. This study sought to answer the following three questions: (1) Why are faculty members not participating in online instruction? (2) What incentives, if any, are likely to motivate non-participating instructors to adopt online instruction? and (3) What are the differences in perceptions regarding online instruction between faculty members who had been asked or had an opportunity to teach online and refused and faculty members who had tried online instruction and no longer teach online? Using a basic qualitative research design, I interviewed 20 unlimited, full-time faculty members of community and technical colleges who had been asked or had the opportunity to teach online and refused or who had tried teaching online and discontinued doing so. Through these interviews, I gained valuable insight into elements that hinder the motivation of community and technical college faculty members for teaching online. I further identified some factors that may motivate faculty members to embrace online instruction.
Recommended Citation
Dufner, Sally, "Reluctance Toward Online Teaching" (2018). Culminating Projects in Higher Education Administration. 27.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/hied_etds/27
