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Helpful Hints for Effective Online Teaching: Introduction

CSI Staff

Staff Writer

Center for Support of Instruction

Published: November-December 2002

Category: » Online-pedagogy » Teaching-strategies

CSI interviewed a number of faculty members to glean their best practices. Over the course of many semesters of teaching online, these faculty have developed highly effective methods to improve student satisfaction (as well as their own!). All the faculty members we spoke with eagerly shared their insights. They credited their own success to those early adopters from whom they learned and, in turn, enthusiastically related their stories for their

The Helpful Hints for Effective Online Teaching series will span the lifecycle of a typical online class. In each issue of the DE Oracle, we'll focus on a different aspect of online teaching that emerged from our discussions with seasoned aculty members. For the most part, the helpful hints and techniques suggested aren't complicated or difficult to implement. Indeed, you may have already thought of many of these ideas yourself.

The first installment of this series is devoted to preparations you can make even before you're staffed to teach a particular WebTycho class section. Faculty members who plan and prepare their materials ahead of time report that online classroom set-up goes very quickly. They also report less anxiety at the beginning of the semester, even when they agree to take on new or additional class sections. Read their recommendations.

Other articles in this series

• Pre-Class Preparation
• Setting Up Your WebTycho Classroom
• Managing the Online Classroom