Demystifies online teaching for both enthusiastic and wary educators
and helps faculty who teach online do their best work as digital
instructors.
It is difficult to imagine a college class today that does not include
some online component--whether a simple posting of a syllabus to course
management software, the use of social media for communication, or a
full-blown course offering through a MOOC platform. In Teaching
Online, Claire Howell Major describes for college faculty the changes
that accompany use of such technologies and offers real-world strategies
for surmounting digital teaching challenges.
Teaching with these evolving media requires instructors to alter the
ways in which they conceive of and do their work, according to Major.
They must frequently update their knowledge of learning, teaching, and
media, and they need to develop new forms of instruction, revise and
reconceptualize classroom materials, and refresh their communication
patterns. Faculty teaching online must also reconsider the student
experience and determine what changes for students ultimately mean for
their own work and for their institutions.
Teaching Online presents instructors with a thoughtful synthesis of
educational theory, research, and practice as well as a review of
strategies for managing the instructional changes involved in teaching
online. In addition, this book presents examples of best practices from
successful online instructors as well as cutting-edge ideas from leading
scholars and educational technologists. Faculty members, researchers,
instructional designers, students, administrators, and policy makers who
engage with online learning will find this book an invaluable resource.
