7 Strategies to Make Your Online Teaching Better. This GradHacker post is by Andrea Zellner, PhD candidate in Ed Tech/Ed Pysch at Michigan State University, @andreazellner There is no doubt that online education has arrived in Higher Education. Each year, the numbers of colleges and universities offering online courses increases. There is certainly appeal for these types of courses: students can better fit them into busy schedules and traveling to campus is no longer required.
While I dabbled in teaching hybrid and online courses for a while, I have been teaching online for most of the past two years. Additionally, I began my graduate career in a hybrid PhD program: two weeks of face-to-face instruction with the rest of the instruction and work provided entirely online, and mostly asynchronously. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.Provide support for self-regulation. 7.
In the end, there is a lot to consider when teaching online. P.S. What are your tips for teaching online? Hybrid Courses: Faculty Resources. Advantages New teaching opportunities: "The hybrid took something I always knew was possible and let me do it. " Faculty can teach using a variety of online and in-class teaching strategies, which make it possible to achieve course goals and objectives more effectively.
The hybrid model allows faculty to develop solutions to course problems and to incorporate new types of interactive and independent learning activities that were not possible in traditional courses. Student engagement: "In the online classroom, there is no place to hide…. And in that sense, students can become more responsible than you could ever make them in a face-to-face classroom. " Instructors report that they feel more connected with their students and are able to get to know them better since they communicate both online and face-to-face. Increased student learning: "My students have done better than I've ever seen; they are motivated, enthused and doing their best work.
" Challenges. Information Literacy Tutorial: Sample Assignments - UMUC Library. Information literacy assignments progress through several different levels of difficulty. The most basic level is appreciation and the most challenging is integrated skill. For each level, assignment examples are provided to help faculty to develop assignments of their own. Appreciation Have students explain what an information database is and how it is relevant for finding information. Have students discuss the differences among various Web search engines. Literacy Given a topic, have students search for relevant information resources using the Web and compare what they retrieve with the resources found in the library databases.
Facility Stage a debate in class with pro and con panels. Integrated Skill Have students develop a logical plan to retrieve information in a variety of formats, retrieve the information, evaluate the information, cite the information resources appropriately, and present their findings to the class. Information Literacy Assignments in Use by Faculty at UMUC Example. Online Teaching Resources, Writing at Wesleyan. Wesleyan Home → Writing → For Faculty → Online Teaching Resources (From the Websites of other Universities and Writing Programs) Note: For the sake of clarity, I have organized resources under the following headings: On Crafting Writing Assignments, On Responding to Student Writing, Elements of the Academic Essay, Plagiarism, Guides to Discipline-Specific Writing, Resources for Instructors of Multi-Lingual Students, General Resources, and Additional Teaching Resources. The resources I include are certainly not comprehensive: I would welcome any suggestions of additional resources that could be added.
Kate Thorpe, Teagle Writing Fellow 2011-2013 On Crafting Writing Assignments: Elements of an Effective Writing Assignment (Kerry Walk, Princeton): A one-page, concise, nuts-and-bolts description of components to include in writing assignments, with examples to illustrate. Syllabus and Assignment Design (Dartmouth): Plagiarism: Www.annotationtool.com/vanderpol/10 Tips.pdf. Designing Effective Online Assignments - Do Your Job Better. By Todd Gilman If you've never taught a course online, chances are you've never considered how you might adjust your tests and assignments to suit the electronic medium.
At most, you've probably shuddered at the thought of having to devise what you assume would be a dumbed-down, self-grading, multiple-choice, Web-based quiz. If that weren't bad enough, you probably also imagined the students being fed the answers by a friend, the two of them side by side at the computer. It all seemed so degrading, so futile. Cheer up: In my years of online teaching, I've never given a quiz or a test online, much less a multiple-choice one. That's mainly because the temptation to cheat on tests is overwhelming online, even with short-answer or essay questions, which, when administered online, are essentially open-book tests (unless they can be proctored, which is usually impractical).
Online teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level poses specific challenges for both instructors and students.