Pedagogy 2.0

Interesting article about personality online.

missed the mark for me.

Practical information for making your online course accessible (Word documents, PPTs, PDFs, video, etc.) 

This is my tutorial. Thanks for including it!

Covers design considerations that influence student success.

Another good list with helpful descriptions of each topic for consideration.

Discussion board rubric.

Pedagogy and the Class Blog

a little old.

"A model that encourages students to participate in online forum discussions, provides a template for new online faculty to use in creating effective discussion questions, and promotes a higher level processing of the material."

Research on online classes strongly identifies participation as a positive variable. Research on online teaching also reveals the time intensive practices involved with providing individualized attention and feedback. An online instructor must negotiate the balance between being responsive and managing time effectively. To that end, writing sound discussion questions, based on a model, is one way to invite and increase participation and maximize the time element. The CREST+ model, a model for writing effective online discussion questions, covers the cognitive nature of the question, the reading basis, any experiential possibility, style and type of question, and finally ways to structure a good question.  This model encourages students to participate in online forum discussions, provides a template for new online faculty to use in creating effective discussion questions, and promotes a higher level processing of the material.

"Sloan-C community peer-reviewed techniques, strategies, and practices in online education."

To help make quality online education accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, the members of the Sloan-C community share techniques, strategies, and practices in online education that have worked for them. All effective practices are peer reviewed to insure quality and to give submitters some documentation for tenure and promotion files.

"This is the online shared references and resources area of the SUNY Learning Network education team."

"How Students Develop Online Learning Skills"

"Lost in Translation: Importance of Effective Communication in Online Education"

Tools for improving instructor presence

I like that it gives examples of tools that can be used to increase instructor presence.

I see how it fits in, but it might be too specific in terms of the technology and because of that, might not stand the test of time.

"Video Primers in an Online Repository for e-Teaching & Learning"

"Dr. Curt Bonk, Professor in Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, in a video series addressing the design and best practices of Distance Education courses. "

I like the idea of this, but not the implementation.

"Resources on making distance learning courses accessible to students and instructors with disabilities."

"Center for Teaching and Learning"

"This index represents a compilation of those activities to help instructors plan their online and hybrid courses."

"Instructional blogging operates as a knowledge-centered instructional tool. In this model the instructor involves students in research activities, engages them in discussions with practitioners, and leads them through developmental concepts of the discipline's knowledge domain."

The University of Central Florida's (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as a public resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature. While TOPR is currently in its beta release, all are welcome to browse and search its contents.

I like this resource, it links to a lot of good information on many different topics. It may be a little difficult for a beginning faculty member to jump right into and find useful, but I think it would be a good companion to an article or two that first outlines the general principles of instructional design.

"As a core project, a university eLearning Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community (FLC) chose to apply recommendations for the "art" of good teaching to the online realm. There is relatively little discussion of this issue in the literature. In this paper, we use Bain's (2004) book What the Best College Teachers Do to discuss some of the major ways that the practices of effective teaching in general can be applied to online teaching in particular. Specifically, we explore methods of fostering student engagement, stimulating intellectual development, and building rapport with students when teaching online. This analysis provides a much-needed "art of teaching" set of recommendations that complements the "science of teaching" best practices approach to online pedagogy. "

Good article. Takes the characteristics of best college teachers and applies it to teaching in an online environment. Three major Characteristics: Fostering Student Engagement Stimulating Intellectual Development Building Rapport with Students

"The basic components in this model of Integrated Course Design are the same as those found in other models of instructional design: analyze the situational factors, formulate the learning goals, design the feedback and assessment procedures, and select the teaching/learning activities. What is distinctive about this model is that these components have been put together in a way that reveals and emphasizes their inter-relatedness."

This is a good article with helpful worksheets to get faculty to think about how to design an online course. However it is pretty long 30+ pages, which is probably a barrier.

" teaching presence in online education depends on course design and organization, facilitation of online discourse, and well-focused direct instruction."

Good article that talks about developing online presence through both the design and implementation of the course. Provides some basic examples on how faculty can establish an online presence.

I liked this article very much