Learning to Teach Online

"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"

"Though remote learning has brought many challenges, some students seem to be thriving in the new circumstances. What can we learn from them?"

Many aspects of teaching online discussed in these hour-long webinars

"More and more, faculty and instructors are thinking differently about assessment. As views change of what assessment is intended to achieve and how it might be done, the following articles provide the resources to make change possible."

"...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)"

Last minute information on teaching online for the fall. Most are freely available online.

"Teaching online but you don't want to be on camera? You have several off-camera options for teaching online. Check out the whole series!"

"Rhythm, routine, and relationships" in addition to backwards design, mostly asynchronous learning to help students having connection issues, family issues, and more than one class online.

Many free modules for learning to teach online in addition to their main (for a fee) workshop in the summer.

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

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

"This article advocates that, through collaborative technology‐mediated tasks, we can promote productive language output (spoken and written) and the type of interaction that facilitates language learning and motivates students to continue improving their language skills."

"This article presents a roadmap for planning, implementing, and evaluating online education in ideal and in crisis contexts."

"What you will find here is advice on how to make your online pedagogy as effective and satisfying as the in-person version"

"6 ways to lead meaningful class discussions in an asynchronous online forum"

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