A Simple Guide to Online Teaching
Determine the content and instructional objectives for your course, what pedagogies you will use, and how you will assess student learning
1. Design your syllabus (see some resources)
*Explore some pedagogical approaches: Active learning, Meaningful learning with technology, and Inclusive pedagogy
*Keep these suggestions in mind:
- Give voice to students while designing your course and determining pedagogies
- Encourage active learning and interaction of students with peers, course content, and instructor
- Provide appropriate support and scaffolding when needed during the learning process
- Give and get feedback to/from students about activities and assignments
2. Identify modality of your course: full-synchronous, full-asynchronous, or hybrid delivery
- You may design fully-live, synchronous weekly lessons
- By recording videos, you may run a fully-asynchronous course
- For hybrid courses, you may have synchronous, live meetings integrated with some asynchronous tasks assigned to students
3. Decide what activities you will plan and which tools you will use for synchronous and asynchronous lessons
- Group/individual work
- Discussion forum (e.g. Moodle discussion forum)
- Collaborative tasks (e.g. Zoom breakout rooms)
- Interactive activities (web 2.0 tools)
