Posts Tagged ‘online teaching strategies’
February 9 - Practical Advice for Going from Face to Face to Online Teaching
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Developing an online course based on an existing face-to-face course requires more than learning how to use the technology and loading the material into the learning management system because, as Catherine Nameth, education outreach coordinator at the University of California-Los Angeles, says, “not everything will transfer directly from the face-to-face environment to the online environment.” This transition requires the instructor to rethink and reconfigure the material and anticipate students’ needs.
March 18 - Assignment and Assessment Strategies that Keep Students on Track
By: Teresa K. Dail, PhD in Online Education
Technology enables students to connect with each other, the instructor, and the content. However, distractions—in the form of real-time electronic conversations and a barrage of dozens of commercial and personal interjections—can be omnipresent. Perhaps the online instructor needs to provide his/her own steady stream of engagement that can serve to interrupt (at least temporarily) the flow of extraneous information that competes for both time and focus.
March 4 - Setting Expectations for Online Instructor Performance
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Join Larry Ragan, PhD, director of Penn State’s acclaimed World Campus as he shares 12 key benchmarks for online teaching best practices. You’ll also learn about metrics you can use in assessing teacher performance, and receive a checklist of critical online teaching competencies.
February 3 - Convey Your Online Teaching Persona
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
In order to effectively establish and maintain an active learning community, the instructor must establish his or her teaching persona and maintain it throughout the course, says Bill Phillips, an instructional designer at the University of Central Florida. Unlike in a face-to-face classroom, one’s persona in the online classroom needs to be deliberately incorporated into course design.
January 24 - Be Efficient, Not Busy: Time Management Strategies for Online Teaching
By: Deborah A. Raines, PhD in Online Education
Online teaching redefines the faculty member’s schedule. The feeling of being a 24/7 professor can lead to frustration. Managing one’s time as an online teacher can be a challenge. As the popularity of online education continues to grow, teaching faculty need to develop effective time management behaviors to be efficient and not just busy. Here are ten strategies I like to use:
November 18 - Preparing Your Online Students for the Tough Weeks Ahead
By: Errol Craig Sull in Online Education
Our courses are rolled out to online students with assignments scheduled for each week. Some of these assignments are relatively easy, meaning there will be weeks that are “light” in terms of scheduled assignments, while others will be “killer” weeks because of especially difficult assignments and/or a large number of assignments. While you need to prepare students to do all the assignments, it is especially important that you pre-assist them for those killer weeks. If you don’t do this, their anxiety can markedly increase, their involvement in and enthusiasm for the course can decrease, and you can lose them altogether.
October 28 - Online Teaching Tips for Leveraging Students’ Insights and Experiences
By: Errol Craig Sull in Online Education
Teaching any online class is time-consuming and can be a juggling act. The instructor must keep students engaged and motivated, adhere to a variety of deadlines, quickly answer all student emails and postings, react to in-class “emergencies,” stay on top of all school policies, and teach the subject in an easy-to-understand manner—while remaining a patient, upbeat, and constant presence through it all. This is no easy task, and while we each have developed approaches to help us, there is one often underused “tool” that online instructors can employ: the students in one’s course.
July 7 - Tips for Letting Your Personality Shine When Teaching Online
By: Eileen Narozny in Online Education
Do you have a fear of teaching an online course? Do you think that your personality will not shine through on the web? Has this stopped you from teaching online in the past? If you answered yes to one or all of these questions then you need to know that there is nothing to fear. Teaching online does not mean that you have to lose the personal touch with your students.
April 9 - Three Strategies for Engaging Students through Multimodal Course Design
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Like many new online instructors, Laurie Lorence, an English instructor at San Diego Community College, initially created online courses that were fairly linear and mostly text. She quickly realized that such an approach would not work for her students, particularly those in her pre-college learning courses.
February 8 - A Checklist for Facilitating Online Courses
By: Mary Bart in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
There are two common assumptions about teaching online that can sink even the most well-meaning neophyte. One is that “teaching is teaching” regardless of whether it’s face-to-face or online and there’s no reason to deviate from the proven principles that work so well in the traditional classroom. The second assumption is that teaching online is all about the technology, and if you design your course properly, it pretty much runs itself.
