Practices for Effective Online Teaching

By Alba Cobra

Communication:

The key to an effective e-Learning environment

Let students know what is expected from them: - the course goals - hardware needed - activities guidelines

Show students how they can communicate with each other and with

you. Provide them with demonstrations of tools/activities,

and useful links.

Encourage students:- to get to know each other- to work in groups and individually- to share and exchange experiences even when working individually

Provide students with different tools that can help cater to their learning

preferencesby using synchronous and asynchronous activities

Use those different tools in order to engage students and promote

active participation.

Encourage discussions, reflections, questions and answers,

interaction, collaboration.

Provide students with content resources that can help them build

up their learning..

Design activities to make students´ ideas and thoughts visible, where they can elaborate on concepts given by

asking, responding, talking, and analyzing, thus building their own

understanding, enlarging their ways of seeing things, and sharing ideas

and opinions.

Design meaningful activities to wrap up the course units and the

course itself,and give students due dates for their

readings, productions , and assignments.

BE PRESENT ENCOURAGING, PATIENT, UNDERSTANDING,

HELPFUL, RESPONSIBLE, CREATIVE, ENGAGED.

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REFERENCESThis presentation was based on Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online - @ Designing for Learning