Emory College Strategies for Online Teaching

Resources for Web 2.0 technologies and composition pedagogy From Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects By Kristin L. Arola, Jennifer Sheppard, & Cheryl Ball

A huge list of Design Models including: Postmodern Phenomenological Models Constructivist Models   (see also Constructivism) Action Research (Participatory Design Models) Activity Theory (artifact-mediated and object-oriented action) Anchored Instruction (John Bransford) Andrgogy (Malcom Knowles) Cognitive Apprenticeship (Collins, Brown and Newman) Cognitive Flexibility Theory (Rand Spiro) Generative Learning - Merlin C.

This is Florida Gulf Coast's site for online coursework design which includes their guidance for the steps in coursework development (instructional design, goals and objectives, etc...) as well as advice on media and technology use and other factors. I saw a few items which mimicked items from our readings.

This is a article from a colleague of mine on his experience "flipping" his classroom.

That's a pretty good overview of things to keep in mind; hopefully, going through this class will help to understand how to put some of these things into practice! I've followed a number of Coursera courses on topics related to my PhD, and I've been trying to keep an eye on what I liked and disliked about the way each course was run, so I hope to incorporate some of that into any future online teaching I do.

This paper explores the relationship between student perceptions of various aspects of the course and their actual performance and participation

This article investigates the gap between instructional training and technology training when it comes to second language teachers.

This article is a rather old (1999) meta-analysis of the effect of small-group learning on undergraduate students in STEM majors and the outcomes of collaborative, cooperative, or mixed form learning on student achievement, attitudes and persistence. What we like about this article is that it is scientifically robust, from a really high impact (5 point impact factor) educational research journal. It serves as primary research evidence about how important small group learning can be on a number of outcomes, not just the outcome of achievement. While it doesn't address specifically online work, it is powerful research about the benefits of this kind of learning, which is really convincing, especially when we have students who might resist collaborative learning.

Broken up into skills: speaking, writing, working collaboratively, this site identifies tools to assist in the learning process

I thought some of you might find this document helpful for thinking through your approach to plagiarism. The Council of Writing Program Administrators is a national organization comprised of college and university faculty who run or have professional interest in researching and running writing programs. This document is a statement of best practices for educating students about plagiarism and for building educational environments in which academic honesty flourishes.

David, This is very useful for those of us teaching writing intensive courses - thank you.

I like that this encourages working with students (even PLAGIARISTS) in order to help them get past bad or misguided habits and develop better, more ethical writing practices. Even in the short time I've been teaching, it seems like students are becoming both (a) less attentive to issues of casual plagiarism and (b) less responsive to punitive approaches. I think these guideline could be helpful, for both online and traditional courses, in helping students to think about the kinds of writers they want to be. (...or the kinds of writers *I* want them to be)

Here is an recent interesting resource for anyone including music history or historical facts about music or musicians in their class lectures or research: James Briscoe, Vitalizing Music History Teaching (HIllsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2010). This is a series of collected essays about specific issues in teaching music history in the 21st century. Although certainly not focused solely on teaching online, it certainly presents a variety of principles, problems, and proposals that current teachers are facing in the music history classroom and I found it very helpful.