Pedagogy Portal
Online Teaching
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| General | Teaching and Learning Online | This is an online handbook for UMass Faculty, but can be downloaded. It has chapters on teaching in online environments, teaching an online course, teaching and learning challenges, assessing student learning, and resources. | |
| Effective Practices | The Sloan Consortium offers a complete site on effective practices that can be sorted by learning effectiveness, cost effectiveness, access, faculty satisfaction and student satisfaction. | ||
| This is a comprehensive site that addresses a number of issues regarding distance learning: teaching strategies, instructional development, evaluation, research, and various technologies. | |||
| Online Cl@ssroom | This site provides practical advice to help you improve your online courses. Each issue features tips and insights from successful online course developers and instructors on topics such as course design, facilitation, assessment, interaction, student support and use of emerging technologies. | ||
| A Synthesis of Sloan-C Effective Practices | This document summarizes the recommended practices for online learning. | ||
| Blended Learning Effective Practices | This site from Sloan-C provides a number of links to other resources on effective practices for blended learning. | ||
| Teaching Online | This University of Central Florida site supports faculty teaching online. Although designed for faculty at UCF, there are a variety of resources here that can be of use for anyone thinking about online teaching. | ||
| Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology | This site, from University of Maryland University College, contains two modules. One provides information about the selection and use of various Web-based media, such as text, audio, video, still images, animated graphics, applets, and scripts, to accomplish a number of different learning strategies. The other focuses on delivery and features faculty interviews about realities and successful practices in online course delivery. | ||
| Teaching and Learning on the Internet | This site from University of Colorado at Denver has a number of links to articles about online teaching. | ||
| The World-Wide Web: Its Uses as a Teaching Tool | This article is somewhat dated, but comes from Oxford University. It discusses why and how to teach on the web. | ||
| A Gallery of Best Practices Essays | This is a group of essays from Harvard University that address the issue of the use of technology in a variety of classes. | ||
| Distance Learning | This site, from University of Washington, contains links to teaching and learning bulletins as well as web guides to teaching distance learning resources. | ||
| Distance Teaching and Learning | This site from UMass briefly describes online classes and discusses the special challenges. | ||
| Links for Work in Computer Lab or Online | This site, from the TLT Group contains links to a number of resources regarding online learning. | ||
| Preparation | Instructional Design for Online Courses | This is a PowerPoint presentation from University of Illinois that contains some excellent information about preparing for an online class and also contains examples. | |
| 17 Elements of Good Online Courses. | This is a brief outline for how to prepare for an online course. | ||
| Instructional Strategies for Online Courses | This site contains ten instructional strategies which have been effectively used in the traditional classroom and can likewise be used in the online learning environment. It includes issues such as learning contracts, discussion, mentorship, etc. | ||
| Principles of Online Design | This is a complete guide to designing an online course including, introduction, instructional design, interaction & feedback, instructional media, and course management. It is designed for Florida Gulf Coast faculty but others may benefit from the materials. | ||
| Online Course References | This site provides online references for the following topics: instructor and student roles, building online learning communities, online course design, examples of online courses and degree programs, online/distance education information for faculty, online conferences on online course instructors. | ||
| An Introduction to Teaching Online | This paper explores key questions to consider when planning an online course and provides guidelines for effective instructional practices. | ||
Distance, Distributed, and Blended/Hybrid Learning |
This Resource Page, from the TLT Group includes a variety of resources of use to leaders and faculty in programs of distance and distributed learning. It's of some benefit for improving blended and hybrid courses, too. | ||
| Good Teaching Is Good Teaching: | This article describes a faculty initiative project and presents a set of principles and practices developed by faculty from three universities who were involved in designing distance education programs. Principles were developed in five categories addressing issues related to the design and development of a quality educational experience | ||
| Interaction | Mentoring Students Online | This site from Penn State discusses the various facets of mentoring, as well as tools, techniques, and resources for developing a rapport with your students. | |
| A Framework for Designing Questions for Online Learning | This paper presents the results of research among successful online instructors who share question formats that have engendered and perpetuated discussion. | ||
| Managing—and Motivating!—Distance Learning Group Activities | This article from TLT discusses different types of online group activities. | ||
| Alternatives to the online lecture | Web-based learning is well-suited for communications, collaboration, and information acquisition, but not for reading long text files. This resource provides the advantages and disadvantages to 14 other sources of providing information in the online classroom. | ||
| The Role of the Online Instructor/Facilitator | This article will list the roles and functions of the online instructor in computer conferencing (CC). Simply stated, computer conferencing is "direct human-human communication, with the computer acting simply as a transaction router, or providing simple storage and retrieval functions" | ||
| Learning Styles and the Online Environment | This article describes how the online instructor can reach students with different learning styles. | ||
| Eight Ways to Get Students More Engaged in Online Conferences | Dr. William Klemm from Texas A&M University recommends following these eight guidelines to create a strong collaborative learning environment in your course discussion board. These methods increase both the quality and quantity of student participation. | ||
| View Effective Practices for Student Satisfaction | This site from Sloan-C illustrates some of the best practices in online education for increasing student satisfaction. | ||
| Online Discussions | Handbook for Instructor on the Use of Electronic Class Discussion | This handbook introduces online discussion, provides research findings, offers technology considerations, suggests goals, and offers tips. | |
| Keys to Facilitating Successful Online Discussions | This article discusses how to plan and implement online discussions | ||
| Facilitating Online Discussion | This site offers some strategies to promote online discussions. | ||
| Introduction to Crafting Questions for Online Discussion | This guide, from Penn State, investigate how to use questions to achieve specific learning outcomes, guide the discussion process, and provide meaningful feedback to your students. | ||
| Avoiding Online Discussion Pitfalls | This is a table that contains problems that may occur in online discussions. Solutions are also offered. | ||
| Technology and Education Online Discussion Forums: It's in the Response | This article is a qualitative analysis concerning the use of discussion forums in web-based course delivery. | ||
| Engaging Students in Discussion Online | The Center for Instructional Development and Research at University of Washington Catalyst have worked together with UW instructors to plan and assess the use of the online threaded discussion tool in their classes. In interviews with students and consultations with instructors, they learned that many instructors value online discussion because it encourages more students to participate and engage more deeply with course material. They also identified key questions to help instructors take the most advantage of online discussions to promote student learning. | ||
| Assessment | Computer-based Testing | This site explains the advantages of computer-based testing over paper-delivered tests. | |
| 4 New Assessment Strategies | This paper addresses the opportunities and challenges offered by online learning for new methods of assessment and feedback that engage and motivate students, | ||
| Research | Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning | This is an executive summary of a 2006 survey of online learning. One can download the entire survey for free. | |
| Research on Best Practices | This is an excellent resource from San Juan College. The pages present a summary of research related to best practices of teaching online. It is divided into 4 sections: content and structure, communication, assessment, and references. | ||
| Students | What Makes a Successful Online Student? | This resource suggests ten qualities that a successful online student will have. |
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