Excellent Online Teaching: Effective Strategies For A Successful Semester Online

Excellent Online Teaching: Effective Strategies For A Successful Semester Online

This succinct guide is already being used for faculty development at an Ivy League medical school, a state university, and high schools across the country. It's an straightforward and quality blueprint for how to teach online. Drawing on nearly a decade of teaching online, and many years working as a technical adviser and faculty developer in higher education, author Aaron Johnson walks you through <em>sixteen distinct characteristics</em> of excellent online teaching. <br /><br /><h3>What You'll Learn</h3><ul><li> Effective ways to save time grading online assignments</li><li> Strategies for connecting with your online students</li><li> Ways to give your online students meaningful feedback</li><li> Tips for how to communicate effectively in the online environment</li><li> How to begin and end your online course with excellence</li><li> How to effectively facilitate online discussions</li><li> More: Preview the table of contents of Excellent Online Teaching for all sixteen chapters</li></ul><h3>Actionable & To-The-Point</h3><br />There is no wading through page after page for useful content. Each chapter of <em>Excellent Online Teaching</em> provides online instructors with practices and tips that can be immediately implemented in the classroom.<br /><br /><h3>Companion Website</h3><em>Excellent Online Teaching</em> has a companion website with resources for each chapter. Because online education is a rapidly changing field, this book <em>focuses on enduring methods</em> for teaching online. The companion website contains updates, technical helps, templates, and other resources.<br /><br />"My hope is that you'll end the semester with a new level of confidence and with course evaluations and student feedback that lets you know you are on the right track. More importantly, I hope that you and your students will be experiencing a vibrant learning relationship. If you are new to online teaching, this book is a great way to start. If you have been teaching online for a while, I think you'll find some ways to improve your game."<br />- Author, Aaron Johnson