{"id":24,"date":"2016-09-01T10:43:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/?p=24"},"modified":"2020-01-09T12:32:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T17:32:55","slug":"excellent-online-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/2016\/09\/01\/excellent-online-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Online Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many professors today either teach online courses, think they will teach them sometime in the future, or are simply interested in what makes for a good online course. In interviews with successful online educators, Bailey and Card (2009) report that the following techniques for excellent online teaching emerged:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fostering relationships<\/strong> (showing empathy towards students, caring about teaching and students&#8217; success);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Engagement<\/strong> (encouraging discussion through email, discussion boards, sharing students&#8217; biographies and group projects);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Timeliness<\/strong> (providing timely feedback, replying to emails quickly to answer questions);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Communication<\/strong> (timely responses about assessment, communicating course requirements and times they will be away);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Organization<\/strong> (having all the materials and requirements set up before the first day of class so students know all that&#8217;s expected of them in the course);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Technology<\/strong> (develop technical competency and utilizing a variety of technological tools to teach);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flexibility<\/strong> (having an open mind, being adaptable and patient to overcome potential glitches, software and hardware failures, etc.);<\/li>\n<li><strong>High expectations<\/strong> (communicate goals and objectives clearly, be specific, communicate high expectations of the students, tell them what they can expect of you).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Bailey, C. J., &amp; Card, K. A. (2009). Effective pedagogical practices for online teaching: Perception of experienced instructors. Internet and Higher Education 12(3-4), 152-155. doi:10.1016\/j.iheduc.2009.08.002<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many professors today either teach online courses, think they will teach them sometime in the future, or are simply interested in what makes for a good online course. In interviews with successful online educators, Bailey and Card (2009) report that the following techniques for excellent online teaching emerged: Fostering relationships (showing empathy towards students, caring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/faculty-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}