Dr. Laine Scales joins Learning Design team as 24-25 Faculty Fellow
Over the last three years, Dr. Laine Scales as worked alongside the Baylor University Libraries Learning Design team designing and facilitating a number of professional development opportunities for Baylor faculty and graduate students. Dr. Scales has been instrumental in the success of DOTS (Designing for Online Teaching Success) for Baylor doctoral students and DIVE (Designing Instruction for Virtual Engagement) for Baylor faculty interested in best practices in online education. This year Dr. Scales in partnership with the ATL has developed the Online Faculty Institute (OFI) a new faculty professional development based on ATLs well respected Summer Faculty Institute. Dr. Scales has been a tremendous resource for the Learning Design team and Baylor’s faculty and therefore we felt it was important to invite Dr. Laine Scales to join the Learning Design team as a Faculty Fellow.
More about Dr. Laine Scales.
T. Laine Scales, Professor of Social Work received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina and her MSW from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and completed her Ph.D. in Higher Education at the University of Kentucky. After teaching at Palm Beach Atlantic University and Stephen F. Austin State University, she began her Baylor career in 1999 as a faculty member in the School of Social Work. Focusing on development of future faculty, she served from 2004- 2018 as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professional Development in Baylor’s Graduate School and from 2008- 2018 she served the School of Education as Professor of Higher Education, teaching doctoral students building skills in college teaching. With undergraduate students, Dr. Scales served as Faculty in Residence, living among first-year students in the Engaged Learning Groups LLC (2007-2013) and since 2011, she has co-directed the Baylor in Oxford summer study abroad program. In outreach, she served as state co-coordinator for Texas with the Office for Women in Higher education (2006-08), and since 2018, co-director of Baptist Scholars International Roundtable (BSIR) convening each year in Oxford. She is founder of Good Neighbor Settlement House, a nonprofit organization serving Waco, TX.
In 2016, Baylor honored Dr. Scales with its highest teaching award, Baylor Master Teacher. Moving into online education in 2018, Dr. Scales brought her faculty development skills to pilot the Online Faculty Institute (OFI), an experimental program for Baylor faculty learning to design and deliver online classes. Continuing her ongoing involvement with Baylor’s Academy for Teaching and Learning, Dr. Scales offered mentoring and workshops in 2020 for faculty learning to teach in emergency remote classrooms during the Co-Vid 19 pandemic. In 2021, she began as co-facilitator of the Designing for Online Teaching Success (DOTS) program for doctoral students and in 2022 co-created Designing Instruction for Virtual Engagement (DIVE) with Baylor’s Learning Design team. In 2024 Dr. Scales and Dr. Chris Zakrzewski co-created the Online Faculty Institute, a two -semester faculty development program sponsored by Learning Design and the Academy for Teaching and Learning. She was appointed co-director of the Garland School of Social Work’s online PhD program in 2022, where she teaches course in Ethics and Qualitative Research and facilitates a teaching practicum seminar.
An accomplished researcher and writer, Dr. Scales has authored, co-authored, or co-edited eleven books and over fifty articles and chapters in the areas of case method teaching, rural social work, doctoral education, and history of Baptist women in social work and higher education.
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