Online Teaching

The course is structured into modules that roughly map to the actions that an instructor would do while offering any course. These modules can be accessed on the left menu column (on Desktop/Laptop) OR by clicking the three bars at the top left (on Mobiles/Tablets) from any page. The modules are:

• The Challenge
• Making Decisions
• Terminology
• Principles
• Preparing Content
• Delivering Content
• Interacting with students
• Assessment
• Lab Courses
• Best Practices
• Extra Materials

Course Goals

Teaching online can range from uploading lecture notes to full-fledged learner-centric activities in online medium.

The goals of this course are:

• To help instructors who mostly teach face-to-face classes to get started in online teaching.
• To address various aspects of the teaching-learning process in the online medium, beyond content delivery.
• To highlight some key principles, strategies and tools, for effective teaching-learning in this new medium.
• To make recommendations that are based in evidence from research and practice in online learning.

The following are out-of-scope of this course: In-depth treatment of the principles and their research basis, detailed tutorial of the technology tools, addressing requirements of physical lab or hands-on components, and policy issues such as attendance or exams, which vary from one institute to another.

The course will attempt to maintain low-floor (low entry barrier for getting started), high-ceiling (give links for going all the way to learner-centric MOOCs), and wide-walls (indicate multiple options for achieving a goal). Instructors and Institutes could use this course even if they want move to online instruction partially, say for a few weeks in the semester.