Tips for Online Teaching

We have several opportunities for you to connect with other online instructors at RTC! Please contact faculty learning community facilitator Liz Falconer if you would like to join a faculty learning community or just talk about online teaching ideas.







Here are some useful blogs to subscribe to:

On Cloud Computing for Educators: http://rtccloud.blogspot.com/



Thoughts on eLearning: http://falconercloud.blogspot.com/



and these excellent resources:
Sh!ft eLearning  Blog: http://info.shiftelearning.com/blog

Edudemic Blog: http://www.edudemic.com/


The RTC youtube site has many teaching tips that can be applied online or in the classroom: http://www.youtube.com/rtclife

FURTHER RESOURCES:
The following paper talks about the importance of a good instructional design, making asynchronous discussions and other tools manageable within a classroom:  Time Management Strategies for the Online Teacher

Curt Bonk is a professor at the Indiana State University School of Education. Professor Bonk has produced a series of 27 videos containing strategies and tips for teaching online. The first video in the series, Planning an Online Course, is here:
http://youtu.be/m3H7PbkndOk

Take a look at Merlot, a multimedia educational resource for online teaching and learning: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm