Online Teaching

"Transforming Your Course" (post) gives four tips "to transform your course to an online course ... through careful re-examination of course design, pedagogy, assessments, and technology in order to optimize the online learning experience."

1. "Start with Your Course Learning Outcomes"

10 Ways to Help Online Learners Succeed (pdf) lists "ten specific things which we can do as instructors ... to improve the learning outcomes from students studying online".

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"Time-Saving Tips for Teaching Large Online Classes" (online article; the link is dead, but the content below remains useful) offers 7 "broad strategies" for "deliver[ing] high-quality education in classes with increased class sizes, while managing your workload within realistic time constraints."

• "Although the focus is on online education, many of these strategies could be applied in face-to-face classes as well."

1. "Modify assignments." 

"Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online" (pdf) outlines "best practices ... [that] [r]esearch and experience suggest ... contribute to an effective, efficient and satisfying teaching and learning experience for both faculty and students."

• Each practice is elaborated more fully in the pdf.

1. "Be present at the course site."

"Five Ways to Build Community in Online Classrooms" (post) outlines strategies to "concretize ... 'a sense of belonging'" in an online course -- and so "increas[e] the likelihood of student success."