Online Teaching: Pedagogy, Tools and Resources
Online Pedagogy
An Integration of Online and Flipped Classroom Models
Focus: Students engage course content online outside of the classroom, while conducting active learning during class-time
Social Media for Higher Education (Students as Co-Producers)
Focus: A look at the evolving role played by social media in higher education
Three Principles of Online Pedagogy
Focus: Engaging students in course content, presenting content from multiple fronts, transforming yourself from a 'sage' to a 'guide,' increasing 'interactivity,' establishing a course 'presence'
Ten Best Practices of Teaching Online
Focus: Course presence, establishing a supportive learning community, providing clear expectations, large vs. small vs individual course experiences, synchronous vs. asynchronous activities, constructive feedback, thoughtful and reflective discussions, easily accessible resources/applications, closing activities
Best Practices for Teaching Online--Brown University
Focus: Consulting with an Instructional Designer during course design phase, alerting students to differences between the online and traditional course environments, presence in discussion forums, effective feedback, instructor time management
What is not to discuss?
Focus: The authors provide an in-depth outline for best practices for online discussions, including practical solutions for increasing student participation, assessment and evaluation tools, and parameters for expectations (both of the student and the instructor).
Cutting the distance in distance education: Perspectives on what promotes positive, online learning experiences
Focus: Overcoming challenges to providing a “sense of community” among students participating in online courses, and redefining communication skills
What the Best Online Teachers Should Do
Focus: Innovative strategies to enhance student understanding and critical thinking in an online classroom. Including: fostering student engagement, intellectual development, and building rapport with students.
Adapting PowerPoint Lectures for Online Delivery
Focus: How to seemlessly transform your PowerPoint content to the online environment
Challenges of Moving Your Course Online
Focus: The challenge of online cheating, the need for more student-to-student interactions, the need for more student-to-instructor interactions, incorporating more planned structure, providing visually rich and interactive content, instructor worklaod
Examining Online College Cyber Cheating Methods and Prevention Measures
Focus: Online cheating methods (such as plagiarism, purchasing answers, unauthorized collaboration, etc.) utilized by students and techniques to minimize e-cheating
Seven Life Hacks for Blackboard Grade Center
Focus: Shortcuts for imputing grades and navigating Blackboard’s Grade Center
Focus: Students engage course content online outside of the classroom, while conducting active learning during class-time
Social Media for Higher Education (Students as Co-Producers)
Focus: A look at the evolving role played by social media in higher education
Three Principles of Online Pedagogy
Focus: Engaging students in course content, presenting content from multiple fronts, transforming yourself from a 'sage' to a 'guide,' increasing 'interactivity,' establishing a course 'presence'
Ten Best Practices of Teaching Online
Focus: Course presence, establishing a supportive learning community, providing clear expectations, large vs. small vs individual course experiences, synchronous vs. asynchronous activities, constructive feedback, thoughtful and reflective discussions, easily accessible resources/applications, closing activities
Best Practices for Teaching Online--Brown University
Focus: Consulting with an Instructional Designer during course design phase, alerting students to differences between the online and traditional course environments, presence in discussion forums, effective feedback, instructor time management
What is not to discuss?
Focus: The authors provide an in-depth outline for best practices for online discussions, including practical solutions for increasing student participation, assessment and evaluation tools, and parameters for expectations (both of the student and the instructor).
Cutting the distance in distance education: Perspectives on what promotes positive, online learning experiences
Focus: Overcoming challenges to providing a “sense of community” among students participating in online courses, and redefining communication skills
What the Best Online Teachers Should Do
Focus: Innovative strategies to enhance student understanding and critical thinking in an online classroom. Including: fostering student engagement, intellectual development, and building rapport with students.
Adapting PowerPoint Lectures for Online Delivery
Focus: How to seemlessly transform your PowerPoint content to the online environment
Challenges of Moving Your Course Online
Focus: The challenge of online cheating, the need for more student-to-student interactions, the need for more student-to-instructor interactions, incorporating more planned structure, providing visually rich and interactive content, instructor worklaod
Examining Online College Cyber Cheating Methods and Prevention Measures
Focus: Online cheating methods (such as plagiarism, purchasing answers, unauthorized collaboration, etc.) utilized by students and techniques to minimize e-cheating
Seven Life Hacks for Blackboard Grade Center
Focus: Shortcuts for imputing grades and navigating Blackboard’s Grade Center
Online Content Resources
FIU Online Insider
Focus: FIU Online's Official News Source
The Use of Social Media in Higher Education
Focus: A general introduction to the use of social media in higher education. Specifically: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Blogs
Social Media Gains Momentum in Online Education
Focus: How social media allows students to share information and build a sense of community in the online environment
Twitter Higher Education
Focus: An online community for everyone working in, or with, higher education
Twitter Feeds About Criminal Justice, Race and Policy
Focus: Twitter presence for journals, news organizations and policy institutes related to criminal justice, race and policy
YouTube
Focus: 197 Educational YouTube channels (35 of which are dedicated to policy, history and current events)
FIU Online Insider
Focus: FIU Online's Official News Source
The Use of Social Media in Higher Education
Focus: A general introduction to the use of social media in higher education. Specifically: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Blogs
Social Media Gains Momentum in Online Education
Focus: How social media allows students to share information and build a sense of community in the online environment
Twitter Higher Education
Focus: An online community for everyone working in, or with, higher education
Twitter Feeds About Criminal Justice, Race and Policy
Focus: Twitter presence for journals, news organizations and policy institutes related to criminal justice, race and policy
YouTube
Focus: 197 Educational YouTube channels (35 of which are dedicated to policy, history and current events)
Online Presentation Tools
Prezi--The Science of Effective Presentations
Focus: Creating more visual, interactive, engaging, persuasive and memorable presentations
Voicethread: Transforming Media Into Collaborative Spaces
Focus: Bridging the gap between real time discussions and standard video lectures or online presentations
PowToon
Focus: Seeks to address all of the frustrations people have with PowerPoint and Keynote
Emaze
Focus: Transforming presentations into engaging learning experiences with beautiful designs, created in minutes
19 Free Presentations Tools that are NOT PowerPoint
5 Good Presentation Tools that are also NOT PowerPoint
Focus: Creating more visual, interactive, engaging, persuasive and memorable presentations
Voicethread: Transforming Media Into Collaborative Spaces
Focus: Bridging the gap between real time discussions and standard video lectures or online presentations
PowToon
Focus: Seeks to address all of the frustrations people have with PowerPoint and Keynote
Emaze
Focus: Transforming presentations into engaging learning experiences with beautiful designs, created in minutes
19 Free Presentations Tools that are NOT PowerPoint
5 Good Presentation Tools that are also NOT PowerPoint
Website Design
Weebly
Focus: A simple template platform for creating personal/professional websites
Wix
Focus: Everything you need to create a stunning website
SchoolRack
Focus: Creating a free educational website
Google Sites
Focus: Building educational websites
Focus: A simple template platform for creating personal/professional websites
Wix
Focus: Everything you need to create a stunning website
SchoolRack
Focus: Creating a free educational website
Google Sites
Focus: Building educational websites