Faculty Quality Assessment Services Available

Aug. 19, 2008 - PRLog -- Phoenix, Arizona - In the age of career schools and online learning, faculty quality has become a hot topic. Faculty quality remains a chief concern for accrediting agencies and students alike. What remains allusive are the indicators of quality. Faculty quality has been assessed by traditional universities for years, but significant differences exist between traditional schools and online learning, particularly how students are taught and the role of faculty teaching the courses.

Traditional schools rely heavily on professional educators to deliver lessons. Career colleges shifted this paradigm through the introduction of field experts. This change brought about an increased need to develop tools and measures to fill in the one gap these experts had; namely teaching experience. Although career colleges managed to make the paradigm shift in terms of faculty; most still rely on the same faculty quality measures used by the traditional schools.

SilkWeb Consulting & Development met this challenge head on through the development of a faculty quality model which integrates the needs of career college students with those of faculty; creating an improved model. This model includes a focus on classroom community, assessment, learners, feedback, and knowledge. Details of this model have been published by Dr. Michael Shaw.

SilkWeb is one of the few organizations currently performing consulting services for career colleges. They are available to assist schools currently seeking to improve the quality of their faculty using this innovative approach.  SilkWeb is also a premier distributor of off-the-shelf web-based courses delivered using Moodle.

About SilkWeb Consulting & Development, LLC:
SilkWeb was formed in 2006 by Dr. Michael Shaw and Laurel Silk. Based in Phoenix, Arizona SilkWeb focuses on training and development using proven instructional design methods combined with educational technology to bring corporate clientele the most useful and up-to-date online training courses on the market.

For more information, call SilkWeb Consulting & Development, LLC at: 623-465-5956 or email at info@silkwebconsulting.com or visit their Website at www.SilkWebConsulting.com

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SilkWeb Consulting & Development offers web-based training and custom course development, business and education consulting, editing and writing services, career coaching including resume writing, instructional design, and much more.