
Small Teaching Online
Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
Jossey-Bass (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. July 2019
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-119-61909-3 (ISBN)
Description
Find out how to apply learning science in online classes
The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.
This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains.
Explains how you can support your online students
Helps your students find success in this non-traditional learning environment
Covers online and blended learning
Addresses specific challenges that online instructors face in higher education
Small Teaching Online presents research-based teaching techniques from an online instructional design expert and the bestselling author of Small Teaching.
The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.
This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains.
Explains how you can support your online students
Helps your students find success in this non-traditional learning environment
Covers online and blended learning
Addresses specific challenges that online instructors face in higher education
Small Teaching Online presents research-based teaching techniques from an online instructional design expert and the bestselling author of Small Teaching.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-61909-3 (9781119619093)
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Persons
FLOWER DARBY is a Senior Instructional Designer and adjunct faculty member at Northern Arizona University, where she's taught for 23 years. She also teaches online classes for Estrella Mountain Community College. Learn more about the Small Teaching approach at www.smallteaching.com.
JAMES M. LANG is a Professor of English and the Director of the D'Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College. He writes a monthly column on teaching and learning for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the author of Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning.
JAMES M. LANG is a Professor of English and the Director of the D'Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College. He writes a monthly column on teaching and learning for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the author of Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning.
Author
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Assumption College, Worcester, MA
Content
About the Authors xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Small Teaching Online xv
Part I Designing for Learning
1 Surfacing Backward Design 5
2 Guiding Learning Through Engagement 27
3 Using Media and Technology Tools 47
Part II Teaching Humans
4 Building Community 75
5 Giving Feedback 107
6 Fostering Student Persistence and Success 131
Part III Motivating Online Students (and Instructors)
7 Creating Autonomy 157
8 Making Connections 179
9 Developing as an Online Instructor 199
Conclusion: Finding Inspiration 221
References 227
Index 237
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Small Teaching Online xv
Part I Designing for Learning
1 Surfacing Backward Design 5
2 Guiding Learning Through Engagement 27
3 Using Media and Technology Tools 47
Part II Teaching Humans
4 Building Community 75
5 Giving Feedback 107
6 Fostering Student Persistence and Success 131
Part III Motivating Online Students (and Instructors)
7 Creating Autonomy 157
8 Making Connections 179
9 Developing as an Online Instructor 199
Conclusion: Finding Inspiration 221
References 227
Index 237