Online Teaching Tips

Seven Principles (Chickering & Gamson)

• Good practice encourages student-faculty contact

• Emphasize cooperation among students• Encourage active learning• Prompt feedback• Time on Task (effective use of time)• Encourage high expectations/goals• Recognize diverse talents and learning styles

Assessing: Bloom’s Taxonomy

• Remembering: retrieving relevant knowledge from long-term memory

• Understanding: constructing meaning, interpreting• Applying: carrying out a procedure, implementing• Analyzing: breaking material into parts, oragnizing, etc.• Evaluating: making judgments based on standards, critiquing• Creating: putting elements together in a coherent structure

Design

• Identify learning objectives• Design assessments• Design content and activities• Select media and delivery options• Develop the course materials• Implement the course• Evaluate and revise

Instructional Events

• Connect—engages students’ prior knowledge of the content and helps the instructor gauge how much students know about the content.

• Reflect—has students externalize their thoughts on their experiences through a discussion board, e-mail, or response to a quizlike question.

• Share—enables students to share their experiences with the whole class, perhaps through a multiple-choice or short-answer question.

• Learn—presents the content.• Practice—provides learners with exercises that reinforce the activities in

the “learn” section.• Personalize—asks students to reflect on what they have learned.• Experiment—has students take the information they have learned and

manipulate it to better understand how the concept works.• Apply—has students apply the learning to new situations.

Think about …

• Technology dependency (Are you too dependent?)• Academic integrity (Are assignments too static? Exams all the same?)• Using other’s content (Are you prepared if you can’t use it anymore?)• Learning styles (Do you care? Should you care?)• Objectives (course/module/assignment)• Expectations and uncertainty of the student• Engagement (passive/active/one-to-one/one-to-many)• Usability (What do I do? How do I do it? Why am I doing it?)• Communications (consistent/persistent/frequent/meaningful)• The Learner