"features books and articles that may be of interest to faculty and instructors teaching online and at a distance, instructional designers, administrators and policy makers - all those interested in the expansion and improvement of online learning."
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."
Meaningful learner interaction is critical to developing second language skills.... What are some tasks that facilitate interaction and build learner community when teaching and learning online?
"One of the most common questions we hear from instructors who are first moving to an online teaching environment is, "How do I build community in an online class?""
"The Journal of Online Learning Research (JOLR) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic understanding of technologies and their impact on pedagogy and policy in primary and secondary (K-12) online and blended environments. "
"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."
"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."
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).
I work with language teachers, teaching them uses of technology for language teaching and learning. I have a special interest in the preparation language teachers need to teach online.