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This about high-enrollment courses, but there are many ideas to consider for teaching any online course. Abstract: "Class size has been a popular topic for decades. There is renewed interest in this topic now with the growth of online learning. Online courses can accommodate hundreds, if not thousands, of students in a single course. Very little research, though, has been conducted recently on class size in online courses and the research that has been conducted is mixed. As the demand for online courses increases, so likely will class size. In this exploratory study, we investigated the perceptions and experiences of 37 faculty teaching high-enrollment online courses. In the following article, we report the results of our inquiry, implications for practice, and areas for additional research."

From the abstract: "As online education continues to grow, instructors from traditional classrooms are being asked to design online courses. In this study, data from interviews with thirty-three public four-year college and university instructors, who had experience designing online courses, were used to understand the instructor's perspective on online course design. "

From Georgia Virtual Learning: "The Effective Online Teaching course content is free for all learners. Learners are prompted throughout the course to complete blog postings to document learning and artifacts. This allows learners to share their work within their professional learning community or with their professional learning leader or coach. Participants may also enroll in verification for the Effective Online Teaching course."

Lists of resources for pedagogy, course design, course delivery, online activities and courses

Originally a course for TWU in Blackboard, it is now available on the web. You can work through it on your own, or use it as a course for faculty PD. Write the author for assignments, practice activities, and the support provided to TWU participants.

"Part 1: WHAT? A comparison of the seven most widely used online course design rubrics, along with their collective strengths and limitations Part 2: SO WHAT? A discussion of why using these rubrics has become so important, and some early evidence of impact Part 3: NOW WHAT? Recommendations for what the rubric providers and adopters should do next to increase online student success further"

"Part 1: WHAT? A comparison of the seven most widely used online course design rubrics, along with their collective strengths and limitations Part 2: SO WHAT? A discussion of why using these rubrics has become so important, and some early evidence of impact Part 3: NOW WHAT? Recommendations for what the rubric providers and adopters should do next to increase online student success further"

Now getting old - the readiness survey is no longer there... Is online teaching for me? Transitioning to online teaching Planning to teach online - things to think about Getting started Preparing an online course Teaching an online course

5 themes to enhance the online course design experience.

Many of the things they did would apply to building a quality online course as well as a whole program.