Posts Tagged ‘online teaching tips’
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:
December 21 - How to Balance Online Learner Needs and Instructor Workload
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Instructor workload in online courses can be overwhelming and can make faculty shy away from using more interactive assignments. Yet, encouraging students to take more responsibility for their learning fosters deeper learning for the students and can allow the instructor to manage his or her workload more effectively. This seminar will outline strategies for developing engaging, interactive assignments, establishing instructor presence and managing instructor workload.
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.
October 22 - Online Courses: Step-by-Step
By: Mary Bart in Online Courses
This three-part online course provides an in-depth, yet straightforward explanation of online teaching’s essentials. You’ll gain valuable insight into the pedagogy of online teaching, the tools and technology at your disposal in the online classroom, and how to get your courses up and running efficiently and painlessly!
July 19 - When Corresponding with Students via E-mail, It Pays to Save
By: Michael T. Eskey, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies
We all have students every course that send us e-mails. Some provide us with information. Some provide us with “excuses”. Some question our instructions. Some question our syllabus and/or course requirements. Some have complaints. Some want “special” treatment. Some feel others have received “special” treatment. In most cases, they want “satisfaction.” And, if you don’t provide this satisfaction, they will go higher to achieve this satisfaction. They will go to your program coordinator the department chair, or dean, or vice president, or even the president.
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 14 - Online Teaching Tips: Sweat the Small Stuff
By: Errol Craig Sull in Online Education
When we teach online courses there are many fundamental issues that concern us: knowledge of our subjects, teaching strategies, engagement of students, school policies, deadlines, grading and returning of assignments, posting announcements, and responding to students—the list goes on.
December 10 - Beyond Course Design: Planning for Successful Facilitation
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Chances are, you’ve spent considerable time and effort revising coursework for better compatibility with distance learning. But, have you done the same with the way you facilitate your courses?
September 17 - Creatively Engaging Online Students: Models and Activities
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Student dissatisfaction, apathy and, increasingly, attrition threaten to derail the progress of online education. During this video presentation, you’ll learn about proven and practical activities for keeping your students engaged in your online programs, all from one of higher-ed’s leading technology experts…and most entertaining presenters.
