Taking Your Course Online

An Interdisciplinary Journey

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Teaching, Computers & Technology, Higher Education
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Author: ISBN: 9781617355950
Publisher: Information Age Publishing Publication: January 1, 2012
Imprint: Information Age Publishing Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781617355950
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Publication: January 1, 2012
Imprint: Information Age Publishing
Language: English

This book focuses on online pedagogy and the challenges and opportunities incumbent in the transformation of a facetoface college course. It is intended as a resource and support for new online teachers a source of ideas and strategies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives as well as pedagogical perspectives and for those experienced in the online environment. The book meets the needs of faculty new to online teaching by providing them a wide variety of perspectives on the online transition e.g. pedagogical, multidisciplinary, class size and level by faculty with varying degrees of previous experience who have recently made the transition from facetoface to online. Their advice and recollections offer a fresh, contemporary perspective on the subject. For administrators and faculty experienced with online instruction, the collection works as a resource for ideas intended to sustain the vibrancy and efficacy of the online environment. Taking Your Course Online includes the experiences of a cohort of faculty that responded to a University wide call for faculty interested in developing online courses for summer session. This group participated in a series of workshops that addressed various aspects of developing online courses and online pedagogy. All of the authors taught their new online course over a subsequent 10week summer session, and many of them have done so subsequently as well. Their experiences have great currency in the everchanging world of online teaching. Because the collection represents the work of teachers exposed to best practices and many discussions concerning rigor, assessment, and accountability, it provides support for the viability of online teaching/learning in an environment frequently plagued by doubts about its effectiveness. Practitioners using this book will learn how to turn their facetoface course into an online course successfully, understand best practices for transitioning courses/online teaching, minimize errors and avoid pitfalls in the transition process, and maximize learning. Faculty development professionals can use this book as a resource to teach faculty from a wide range of disciplines how to transition from the actual to the virtual classroom. Administrators such as deans and program chairs will gain useful insights into ways to think about taking entire programs online, as well as how to guide faculty in their development of pedagogical skills pertinent to online learning.

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This book focuses on online pedagogy and the challenges and opportunities incumbent in the transformation of a facetoface college course. It is intended as a resource and support for new online teachers a source of ideas and strategies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives as well as pedagogical perspectives and for those experienced in the online environment. The book meets the needs of faculty new to online teaching by providing them a wide variety of perspectives on the online transition e.g. pedagogical, multidisciplinary, class size and level by faculty with varying degrees of previous experience who have recently made the transition from facetoface to online. Their advice and recollections offer a fresh, contemporary perspective on the subject. For administrators and faculty experienced with online instruction, the collection works as a resource for ideas intended to sustain the vibrancy and efficacy of the online environment. Taking Your Course Online includes the experiences of a cohort of faculty that responded to a University wide call for faculty interested in developing online courses for summer session. This group participated in a series of workshops that addressed various aspects of developing online courses and online pedagogy. All of the authors taught their new online course over a subsequent 10week summer session, and many of them have done so subsequently as well. Their experiences have great currency in the everchanging world of online teaching. Because the collection represents the work of teachers exposed to best practices and many discussions concerning rigor, assessment, and accountability, it provides support for the viability of online teaching/learning in an environment frequently plagued by doubts about its effectiveness. Practitioners using this book will learn how to turn their facetoface course into an online course successfully, understand best practices for transitioning courses/online teaching, minimize errors and avoid pitfalls in the transition process, and maximize learning. Faculty development professionals can use this book as a resource to teach faculty from a wide range of disciplines how to transition from the actual to the virtual classroom. Administrators such as deans and program chairs will gain useful insights into ways to think about taking entire programs online, as well as how to guide faculty in their development of pedagogical skills pertinent to online learning.

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