Distance Learning, Faculty Research - Other Online Resources - Teaching Issues
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Communication
A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email includes information on intonation, gestures, status and formality.
Netiquette is network etiquette, the do's and don't of online communication
The Help Web guide covers e-mail, the web, FTP, and more
Successful Online Teaching Using An Asynchronous Learner Discussion Forum examines results of evaluations completed by students in online classes at Capella University. The article then gives tips to online teachers based on these evaluations
Learning Styles
Taking Your Course Online developed by Computer Services at North Carolina State University for its faculty. It has some good resources including the section "Student Centered Learning via the Web".
Getting Started with Online Teaching and Learning with a review of examples of Web-enabled teaching/learning activities and examining how a range of technologies may be suited to the demands of different teaching/learning activities and students
Building "Community"
Social Bonds Found to be Crucial in Online Education article identifies ways to create communities with students who don't get the chance to actually meet
Distance Education: Challenges and Opportunities How do we preserve the learning community when learning is taking place off the campus?
Collaborative Learning: Small Group Learning Page principles can be used in traditional or online classes. The topics include: Course Structure, Preparing the Students, Overview of the Instructor's Tasks, Group Roles, Students' and Instructor's Roles, Group Dynamics, Problem Solving, and more
Assessing Learning
Assessing Learners Online discusses the good, the bad, the why and the how, the what and the when of assessing learners online. Looks at the question: "How do educators measure what distance learners know? "
Principles for Assessment
Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education," originally published in the AAHE Bulletin (Chickering & Gamson, 1987), are a framework for evaluating teaching in traditional, face-to-face courses, based on 50 years of higher education research
Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever describes some of the most cost-effective and appropriate ways to use computers, video, and telecommunications technologies to advance the Seven Principles
