Post 33: 14 Best Practices for Teaching Online

Post 33: Best practices for teaching online

I will be writing for the next few posts about best practices  for teaching online.

Best Practice 1: Be Present at the Course Site.

Best practice 2: Create a supportive online course community.

Best practice 3: Develop a set of explicit expectations for your learners and yourself as to how you 

will communicate and how much time students should be working on the course each week.

Best practice 4: Use a variety of lessons in your Course Design to keep students interested.

Best Practice 5: Use synchronous and asynchronous activities.

Best practice 6: Ask for informal feedback early on in the term.

Best practice 7:  Prepare discussion posts that invite Responses, questions, discussions, and reflections.

Best practice 8: Search out and use content resources that are available in digital format.

Best practice 9: Combine for concept learning with customized and personalized learning.

Best practice 10: Plan a good closing and wrap activity for the course.

Best practice 11: Access as you go by gathering evidences of learning.

Best practice 12: Rigorously connect content to core concepts and learning outcomes.

Best practice 13: Develop and use a content frame for your course.

Best practice 14: Design experiences to help learners make progress on their novice to expert journey.

These best practices come from the book, The Online Teaching Survival Guide by Judith V Boettcher and Rita-Marie Conrad.

I will devote one blog post to each best practice Boettcher and Conrad mentions and add my personal spin on each best practice.