Online Teaching and Instruction
Scope
This guide is designed to assist the user in finding and using credible information resources to conduct successful searching and retrieving information on online teaching and instruction.
Subject headings and keyword search terms include:
Online teaching
Distance education and teaching
Online teaching tools and strategies
Periodical articles
Use the following databases to find journal articles using the keywords from the topic you want to research.
Suggested keywords – online teaching, distance education and teaching etc.
EBSCOhost
WilsonWeb
Bibliography for Online Teaching and Instruction
Websites for Online Teaching
Basic Netiquette for Online Classes:
http://nursing.wsu.edu/current/Netiquette.pdf
Polite online behavior is called "Netiquette". Basic rules that should be followed in teaching online classes are covered in this web site.
Tutorials:~Netiquette: http://www.gcccd.net/online/tutorials/netiquette.htm
New users will learn the basics, such as how not to shout at someone in an e-mail (don't use all caps), how not to annoy an entire chat room (don't hold your finger down on one key and continuously press enter, called scrolling) and how not to offend and enrage the e-mail masses (keep the Spam -- or unsolicited mass e-mail -- to a minimum).
Best Online Instructional Practices: Report of Phase I of an Ongoing Study : http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/v8n2/v8n2_keeton.asp
This study examines (given by Sloan Consortium) how best practices in online instruction are the same as, or different from, best practices in face-to-face instruction.
Internet Delivery of Instruction: Issues of Best Teaching Practice, Administrative Hurdles, and Old-Fashioned Politics:
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cnc9703/cnc9703.html
This paper was presented at the 1997 CAUSE annual conference. Do's and Don'ts of offering an online course is summarized.
Exploring Better Practices in Online Teaching and Learning: Determining the Perspectives of Instructors and Learners in a Delphi Process : http://www2.upei.ca/edonline/mgabriel/exploring.htm
Best practices of online teaching is explained in this article
The Role of the Online Instructor/Facilitator: http://www.emoderators.com/moderators/teach_online.html
This article lists the roles and functions of the online instructor in computer conferencing (CC). Types of interaction in learning, pedagogical recommendations --social, managerial and technical -- are elaborated.
Instructional Immediacy and the Seven Principles: Strategies for Facilitating Online Courses: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/fall63/hutchins63.html
A Framework for Expanding Pedagogical Approaches to Enhancing Web-Based Instruction is elaborated in this article. Instructor's role in web-based instruction, faculty attitude, instructional immediacy along with the seven principles of good practice are summarized.
Learning Circuits: E-Learning Fundamentals Articles: http://www.learningcircuits.org/fundamentals.html
An excellent site with archival links provided to full text articles on e-learning from year 2000 to 2003 is provided by a well-known institution called ASTD (American Society of Training & Development) from their publication "Learning Circuits".
Instructional Strategies for Online Courses : http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/pedagogy/instructionalstrategies.asp
This article emphasizes on how ten instructional strategies from traditional educational environment can work in an online learning environment.
WebQuests: http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
EDUCAUSE: Resource Center: http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=645&PARENT_ID=407&bhcp=1
These valuable articles on online teaching are in full-Text and PowerPoint format.
Helpful Tips for Planning and Readiness for Online Instruction: http://www.valdosta.edu/~rbarnett/phi/tips.html
Factors such as identifying student population, Internet access, knowledge of the internet resources and technical support to the instructors and students, contribute to the effective online instruction.
Teach Them to Fly: Strategies for Encouraging Active Online Learning: http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde14/notes_for_editor/hardin.htm
This article from Turkish on-line Journal of Distance Education (April 2004) stresses that the learners need to be active learners and the instructors need to act as a facilitator of learning.
Online Learning News and Research Blog: http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/archive/2004_05_09_archive.html
This web site provides links to relevant news and information on Online Learning Update, Education Technology, and Techno-News.
Websites for Online Learning
NOTE: The following web sites can be passed on by an on-line instructor to the students prior to the first online class. Tips given in these web sites would be beneficial for success of the online students.
Netiquette - Helpful Tips: http://www.distancelearning.org/howtosucceed.html#Netiquette
This web site is prepared by Florida Community College at Jacksonville . How to survive in an online course – study skills and survival tips are provided.
Tips for a Successful Class: http://academic.kellogg.edu/online/orient/tipsuccess.htm
Here are some tips to avoid nightmares or unpleasant online learning experiences.
Communication Guidelines: http://matcmadison.edu/matc/offerings/distancelearning/faq.shtm#7
Guidelines on becoming a successful Distance education learner are given on this website prepared by Madison Area Technical College .
Updated 7/2009
