The New Online Professor

Authors

  • Jan Grimes Georgia Southern University
  • Michael McDonald Georgia Southern University

Keywords:

SECRJ, Southeast Case research Association, Online teaching, glitches, students, management class, professors, case

Abstract

This case depicts the real life adventures of a professor, Dante Alexander, who has been assigned to teach an online management class. He has never taught online before but is an avid learner; however, he is at a bit of a confusing and troublesome juncture point. His courses started off well enough, it seemed, with just a few glitches with getting students acclimated to being in an online course and accommodating some students with connection problems. After the first exam, more troublesome problems surfaced. One was a matter of possible collaboration on exams and the other involved the legality of “voting a member” out of a team project. He wondered how other professors handled such issues.

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Published

2016-09-30

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Cases