Online Teaching Strategies

Tips for Online Teaching Strategies

Using effective collaboration and interaction strategies will be helpful with identifying the individual needs of students.

• Early in the course, require students to contact you and interact among themselves via discussion areas and email, so they become comfortable with the technology and the process.
  
• Discussion Areas - Create topic specific discussion areas that require students to not only post but respond to other postings.
  
• Create a Newbee group within your discussion area that will encourage interaction between students who are familiar with the online technology and program course material and those who are new comers to the online environment as well as the program.
  
• Group Essays- Present a topic in a shared area of your course which will allow students to write an essay with students being responsible for specific paragraphs.
  
• Group Online Presentations- Create a presentational area that allows groups of students to work on presentational software and documents (i.e. PowerPoint).
  
• Group Webpages- Create a presentational area in your course that allows groups of students to work on topic specific webpages.
  
• Suggest students keep a journal of their thoughts and ideas regarding course content as well as their individual progress. Have student share or submit entries frequently throughout the course.
  
• Include detailed comments on written assignments, referring to additional resources for supplementary information.
  
• Integrate a variety of interaction and feedback, including one-on-one and group emails.