Developing and Evaluating a Website as an OER for Faculty Development

Abstract

Faculty development (FD) is an important activity that helps faculty members of an academic institution to provide quality education to students while fulfilling the institution’s missions and improving faculty members’ capacity to teach. With sustainability and scalability in mind, several institutions often use web media to distribute training materials for FD. This paper describes the design and development of a web-based FD program at the International Christian University (ICU), Japan during the fall of 2017. It also presents a thematic analysis of the initial feedback from the first batch of users and external reviewers. Furthermore, it reports a rough measure of the usability and usefulness of the website as an Open Educational Resource (OER).