Course Preparation Means Great Workload Increase for Faculty Without Increased Salaries
Faculty at colleges and universities are participating in the creation of distance online web based courses
and in many cases are not receiving additional pay or compensating workload reductions elsewhere for their
efforts. There are a large number of additional responsibilities in this field of online instruction such as
creation of a complete curriculum in text format as opposed to verbally as classes need to be delivered
either
as a text document or verbally in a webcast and must be clean precise presentations compared to those given
in
traditional classrooms. Student conferences are handled in writing via email rather than in an in person
office meeting. These are two examples of the increased work efforts that are required for the provision of
quality distance online education courses.