1.2: Lane Online Guidebook

Who are our faculty?

If you had never taught online at Lane before Spring 2020's emergency shift, the setup of our online instruction department may be confusing. Like many community colleges, Lane has no separate division that coordinates the assignments or hiring of "online" faculty. Instead, any faculty member at Lane (full- or part-time) can teach online if they are assigned there. Assignments for online courses are handled at the department or division level by the dean or scheduling committee, and decisions about which courses to offer online when are also (usually) made within academic divisions. (Of course, we're in a different world now than we were in Winter 2020. Classes may now be online because this is the safest way to hold them. Contact your division dean for more information about how online assignments or decisions are made).

The Academic Technology Division works to support faculty at any level of their online teaching experience. This includes help in the Academic Technology Center from trained staff and students and help from our instructional design faculty. 

So who are our online faculty? They're probably all around you. Back in the pre-pandemic days of 2019, more than 125 faculty taught online courses here -- nearly 20% of our total faculty. In Spring 2020, nearly every course moved to a fully remote version, and many of these courses incorporated online teaching and learning methods. If you've taught online here before, or if you're interested in trying it in the future, then you're part of Lane Online!