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Samantha,
I’m so glad you were able to tweak this implementation plan and still make it a valuable exercise for someone in your role. This is great, and it gave me a few ideas for teaming up with our Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning to get more involved in our New Faculty Orientation program. When I first read your post, I immediately thought of a checklist for faculty embedded within the sample course at: [url]https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1246849/pages/content-delivery-and-logistics?module_item_id=10251654[/url]
After looking at your checklist, this may be a little too detailed, but it may give you some ideas.

Also, mentorship really is a key success factor (as noted in the Quality Transformation Model for Faculty Development), and recruiting quality mentors can be a challenge. In our model, the instructional designers serve more as a formal mentor in the design process, but we also encourage faculty to seek out more informal mentors within their academic departments. We’ll actually recommend a “web vet,” someone who has been teaching online successfully for at least a few semesters, if one exists in a specific department. We also invite those web vets to come in as guest speakers in our professional development classes. We can often make those informal connections and referrals, but a more formal mentorship program may require incentives. There’s a growing list of creative incentive ideas in this forum:
[url]https://topkit.org/forums/topic/tools-techniques-and-strategies-provide-incentives/[/url]

You may want to check that out and subscribe for future posts to continue to get ideas. We would also like to solicit your feedback and contributions to the TOPkit web site. If you have something you’d like to share or have a great resource you feel we should add to the site, please let us know!

Wendy