Best Practices in Teaching Online

Offers over a 100 practical yet innovative ideas based on decades of author experience teaching in a variety of educational settings.

Combines empirical and methodological research to study the role of time comprehensively from an institutional and management perspective, a technological perspective, and a pedagogical perspective.

Provides guidance on incorporating learning theory into online course content, as well as a host of templates, learning guides, and sample files.

Explores psychological and social aspects of online presence from both the instructor and student perspective, and provides an instructional design framework for developing effective online learning.

Highlights the models and frameworks that have been effective in the development of online education into the classroom.

Offers an engaging and practical approach to online teaching that is rooted in the author's experience and enthusiasm for creating a virtual environment that engages students and fosters their deep learning.

Discusses the social implications of e-learning, its transformative effects, and the social and technical interplay that supports and directs e-learning.

Helps teachers develop pedagogical skills in using the internet through a series of case studies of good practice, all of which are based on extensive classroom research.

Explores the different perspectives of public latency and the creation of electronic educational formats that mimic the experience of traditional classrooms.

Presents several international case studies of online education written by authorities on e-learning and discusses the rhetoric that surrounds this form of teaching and learning.

Focuses on the ways educators can shape their online classes to best suit their students and leave them with knowledge and course satisfaction.

Chapters in this book focus on using an array of different Web 2.0 technologies and web-enabled learning platforms to create technology-rich learning environments.

Offers targeted suggestions for dealing with such critical issues as evaluating effective courseware, working with online classroom dynamics, addressing the needs of the online student, making the transition to online teaching, and promoting the development of the learning community.

Focuses on the most important issues instructors face, such as course design; student engagement and motivation; and institutional, instructional, and informal student support strategies.

Provides the first critical evaluation of theory and practice in online learning and teaching in higher education.

Functions as a general reference guide and how to manual, encouraging new and experienced instructors to explore the vast variety of resources available to create and/or enhance their online teaching experience.

Provides a robust overview of theory-based techniques for teaching online or technology-enhanced courses.

Provides a multifaceted look at online instruction from a variety of authors and may assist instructors who teach online or will teach online in the future.

Shows how to structure online and blended courses for student engagement, build relationships with online students, facilitate discussion boards, collaborate online, design online assessments, and much more.

Includes essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education blend scholarship and research.

Shows how to build an intelligent tutoring system, and an intelligent teaching/learning system upon it. Through the use of intelligent tutoring systems, students are placed in an active role, as opposed to the passive role that they more or less have today.

Explores critical issues such as copyright, technology tools, and accessibility and includes examples from top Blackboard practitioners which are applicable to any LMS.