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"The Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance (VLLA) and Quality Matters (QM) are leading a broad-based effort to revise the National Standards for Quality Online Learning, building upon the work started by The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL)."

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."

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

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

"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."

How do you create online or hybrid courses with an ethos of inclusion and equity embedded throughout?

Many of these would work for any level, even post-sec.

"A professor's in-depth survey of students before and after courses went virtual offers insights into how colleges can improve. The key elements: a thoughtful mix of flexibility and structure."

"Distance learning can feel impersonal and inaccessible, but there are ways to help students feel a sense of connection and access academic material."

"Educators share their best synchronous and asynchronous strategies to boost student participation during online learning."

"The online teachers provided support by building ties to students through interactions via discussion forums and individual communications. Peers also provided support through online forums and webinar-facilitated exchanges. Online teacher and peer student support contributed to the formation of virtual online learning communities. This is important as social and academic integration are mechanisms for retention and success. This research is significant as the numbers of online students have increased markedly in recent times, but student support services do not appear to have changed accordingly. Further, support models for retention and success have not been adequately adapted to suit online learners' needs."

"...it's essential to understand how to build authentic connections with your students to engage them in learning. ...here are my go-to tools for building meaningful connections with students in the digital classroom"