Emory College Strategies for Online Teaching

this storify consists of active learning videos and resources - may want to view the Tools to Encourage Active Learning from the Hawaii Arts Alliance - this was a fun in-class activity

This is the resource that was shown in the live Week 3 session - demonstrating how to create a magazine style syllabus

Based on Blooms Taxonomy and apps, this creates a specialty in aligning outcomes with activities

A bit dated, now, Hess is one of the few faculty who has treated the use of technology in theological education with sustained attention.

Hangen reflects on a radical redesign of her syllabus, which also includes elements of more student-directed learning.

This is a multi-authored article that appeared in the journal Teaching Theology and Religion. I participated in the composition but the reason I am posting it is not my own little section on multi-sensory imagery but rather the part by Russell Haitch which discusses long distance education in the New Testament--the Apostle Paul to be specific. Haitch (as I recall) makes a good case that examples like this one show that one really communicate effectively and passionately, from a long distance, for the purpose of educational transformation. So, if you look at this, zero in on Haitch's case study.

While this paper set out to discover what activities and/or interaction channels might be expected to lead to more highly engaged student s, what it found was a bit different. After first creating a scale to measure online student engagement, and then surveying 186 students from six campuses in the Midwest, the results indicate that there is no particular activity that will automatically help students to be more engaged in online classes. However, the results also suggest that multiple communication channels may be related to higher engagement and that student-student and instructor-student communication are clearly strongly correlated with higher student engagement with the course, in general. Thus, advice for online instructors is still to use active learning but to be sure to incorporate meaningful and multiple ways of interacting with students and encouraging/requiring students to interact with each other.

The title does very well in explaining this resource.

This paper reports the findings of a case study in which audio feedback replaced text-based feedback in asynchronous courses. Previous research has demonstrated that participants in online courses can build effective learning communities through text based communication alone. Similarly, it has been demonstrated that instructors for online courses can adequately project immediacy behaviors using text-based communication.

Michelle Pacansky-Brock's book

This article has some really great ideas and it is a brief read. Great find!

This is the article I mentioned in my discussion post for week 6! Even though the statistical significance in many cases is small, I think it is helpful in thinking through some of the questions of HOW to participate in online discussion.

This article outlines some ways to evaluate online courses - get faculty involved from the start and develop the rating scales...Is this authentic evaluation?

An essay that considers different types of communication, esp. nonverbal and tone issues, in online educational settings.