Adapting to Online Teaching

  Best Practices (both synchronous and asynchronous teaching)

• Best practices for online pedagogy - Harvard - How you can think about teaching online
• How to be a better online teacher - Chronicle - A teaching guide for making your online pedagogy as effective and satisfying as the face-to-face version
• Teaching effectively during times of disruption - Stanford - Suggestions for instructors to offer a student-centered learning experience in an online learning environment
• Prepare to move online (in a hurry) - InsideHigherEd -Considerations to ensure a successful transition to online courses
• Going online in a hurry - Chronicle - What to do and where to start when teaching online

  Asynchronous Teaching (separated by time and distance)

• Best practices for teaching online (YouTube Video: 22 minutes) - Presentation on course preparation, design, expectations setting, instructor presence, content presentation, interactions, engagement, communication, feedback, and assessment
• Creating instructor presence in online courses (YouTube Video: 48 minutes) - Webinar on strategies to establish instructor presence
• Enhancing interaction in your online courses (YouTube Video: 36 minutes) - Webinar on interaction strategies: learner-learner, learner-instructor, and learner-content

  Synchronous Teaching (separated by distance but meets at the same time)

• Engaging participants in a web conference (YouTube Video: 56 minutes) - Webinar on conducting effective web conferences
• Videoconferencing alternatives: How low-bandwidth teaching will save us all (Stanford, 2020) - Consideration of access for all - low-bandwidth options for teaching and learning

  Reconsidering (Online) Assessment

• Effective assessment practices for online learning (YouTube Video: 49 minutes) - Webinar on research-based assessment techniques from low level to high level skills
• A guide for academics - Open Book Exams - [PDF] from Newcastle University; explains how to create open book exams
• Why open-book tests deserve a place in your courses - article from Faculty Focus

  References

• Teaching Online Resources. Compiled by Florence Martin, Learning, Design and Technology, Florence.Martin@uncc.edu UNC Charlotte