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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.

"Consider student needs, maximize engagement, and decide on qualitative and quantitative measures of success

Use the search box and look for things like "online teaching best practices" or "online teaching quality guidelines"

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."

"...open access eBook contains 133 chapters with over 850 pages documenting best practices, strategies, and efforts by teacher educators, professional developers, researchers, and practitioners. It is divided into seven sections that address pedagogy, collaboration, field experiences, preservice education methods, professional development, digital tools, and equity issues. Chapters are presented as innovations with supporting materials that could be easily replicated or studied. (v1.02)"

Free book from the Online Learning Consortium. I like the levels: design (immediate and basic needs), enhance (options to take things up a level), optimize (aligns with highest-quality practices).

"Research about how to successfully teach kids in virtual classrooms has been underway for years. If mainstream teacher prep programs impart those findings to future teachers-and create meaningful ways for them to practice online instruction-it won't be useful just for the next crisis, experts say, but also because careers in K-12 online education are increasingly viable."

"With teachers and students separated, maintaining a sense of community relies on some of the same practices they used in the classroom."

a FREE class from Matt Miller! 14 modules for getting started with remote learning.

How VHS Learning trains its teachers to be best in class in the virtual learning environment