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.