Learning to Teach Online

"What an educator with experience teaching online has learned about structuring students' online and offline experiences and how to provide feedback to keep the learning going."

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

"Working remotely is changing teaching, and it affects how school teams work together as well. Addressing these questions will help teams ensure that they're doing their best work."

There's a big difference between the two!

"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."

"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."

"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?

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

"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?""

tips, collections of information, links to videos, and more

"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.  "

This is a great site - all kinds of information for taking your class online.