10 Best practices for teaching online
Be present at your course site
Create a supportive online course community
Develop a set of explicit expectations for your learners and yourself as to how you will communicate and how much time students should be working on the course each week
Use a variety of large group, small group and individual work experiences
Use synchronous and asynchronous activities
Ask for informal feedback early in the term
Prepare discussion posts that invite responses, questions, discussions and reflections
Search out and use content resources that are available in digital format
Combine core concept learning with customized and personalized learning
Plan a good closing and wrap activity for the course
Assess as you go by gathering evidences of learning
Rigorously connect content to core concepts and learning outcomes
Develop and use a content frame for your course
Design experiences to help learners make progress on their novice-expert journey
From
Boettcher, J. V., Conrad, R., & McQuesten, P. (2016). The online teaching survival guide: Simple and practical pedagogical tips. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.