What makes for effective online teaching? In this month’s interesting read, a crowd-sourcing methodology was used to pose this question to a large number of experienced online instructors from a variety of disciplines. Their collective answers were coded and four overarching themes emerged: 1) supporting student success, 2) providing clarity and relevance through content structure and presentation, 3) establishing presence to encourage a supportive learning community, and 4) being better prepared and more agile as an educator.
You can learn more about this study and get a sampling of the specific recommendations that illustrate each theme by reading the paper at the link below.
Dunlap, J., & Lowenthal, P. (2018). Online educators’ recommendations for teaching online: Crowdsourcing in action. Open Praxis, 10(1), 79-89. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.10.1.721