When I first began teaching online courses, I did so with a fair amount of uncertainty and trepidation. Could I replicate in a digital environment what I believed was essential for an in-person course ...

Best Practices in Online Instruction is a four-week, asynchronous online course that introduces instructors to the best practices in online instruction. Successful completion of this course awards ...

“Thank you so much for taking the time to treat me like a person,” wrote Stephanie in an email to me. A student in one of my online courses, she had fallen behind and couldn’t see a way forward — ...

Experts agree that faculty need training to teach online, yet a survey of faculty who teach undergraduate mathematics courses online indicates that most faculty at two-year colleges are still not ...

“Inside Digital Learning” asked instructors from across the country who teach online courses to answer one of two questions: What is the best piece of advice you received from a colleague, family ...

Institutions often struggle to persuade full-time instructors to stray from tradition and start teaching online courses. In some cases, adjunct instructors bear the burden when other faculty members ...

Experiencing a huge demand for college courses taught over the Web and not wanting to be swept aside by competitors from the commercial sector, universities are often pressuring faculty to teach ...

Understanding how time “works” in online teaching and course design is often a challenge for online instructors, especially those new to online education. Four distinct yet related questions can ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, schools around the globe had to switch from regular, in-person classes to online ...