Strategies and Tips for Successful Online Teaching Series

Strategies and Tips for Successful Online Teaching

In this six-part series, Sage author and education expert Dr. Linda Dale Bloomberg shares strategies and tips for successful online teaching. She covers multimodal strategies for synchronous and asynchronous delivery of content, shows how to engage students who may feel isolated or who may be struggling, discusses how to adopt an accessible and equitable instructional approach, and offers a handout that instructors can give to students on the first day of class with tips for student success in the online environment.

Part 1: 10 Tips for Transitioning to Teaching Online

All students are capable of succeeding in online courses, but the way courses are designed and taught matters. The variability in instructor agility explains why some students love online learning, and others desperately want to return to the traditional classroom. More . . .

Part 2: Being an Effective Online Instructor

While holding the promise of expanding the time and location boundaries of traditional education, online learning gives rise to new constraints, and raises questions about exclusion, isolation, and detachment that are potential barriers to learning. More . . .

Part 3: Employing Multimodal Strategies in Online Teaching

Online education can take a wide variety of shapes and forms, including technology platforms (learning management systems, social media platforms), media modality (text, imagery, videos, audios, etc.), instructional approaches (direct instruction, inquiry-based, flipped classroom etc.). More . . .

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Part 4: Identifying and Supporting Struggling Students in Online Courses

Without set hours and routines, online learners may feel isolated and unmotivated to meet course requirements. Additionally, increasing numbers of students struggle with language needs and disabilities, lack of access to technology, and unfamiliarity with technological requirements. More . . .

Part 5: Making Online Learning Accessible

Equal access to education is mandated by law, and is grounded in the hope that all students will have equal access to course content. This includes a need to address proper accommodations for those with learning disabilities. It is imperative to comply with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. More . . .

Part 6: 10 Tips for Setting Yourself Up For Success In Your Online Class

Share with your students! In many ways, learning online, this “new normal”, reverses traditional teacher/student roles, and places different demands on you as a student. Suddenly, you are responsible for planning, organizing, and directing your own learning. More . . .