Faculty development for proximity: training teachers and tutors in synchronous digital teaching at pegaso university

Maria Concetta Carruba, Elisabetta Lucia De Marco, Anna Dipace

Abstract


The CETAL Faculty Development at Pegaso University supports teachers and tutors in adopting a new pedagogical model centred on synchronous interactive teaching and the Class platform. Structured training pathways were designed for 319 tenured faculty, 70 adjunct lecturers, and 52 university tutors, covering synchronous session management, e-tivity design, and the full range of Class interactive tools — including real-time quizzes, breakout rooms, collaborative whiteboards, and participation analytics. Outcomes are remarkable: sessions regularly recording over 500 simultaneous active participants, and more than 1, 000 high-quality student–teacher interactions per day documented by the IT division. Student satisfaction levels are consistently high. This model fully enacts the university's strategic identity as a proximity institution — deeply relational yet entirely online — demonstrating that affective and pedagogical closeness can be intentionally designed, measured, and scaled through structured teacher training and technology-enhanced environments.


Keywords


Faculty Development, Synchronous Teaching, Digital Affective Literacy

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32043/gsd.v10i4.1879

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