FIVE TENETS FOR ONLINE TEACHING (In honor of my colleagues all scrambling to physically distance their spring syllabus
FIVE TENETS FOR ONLINE TEACHING Ok, I've been teaching a big GE online course for a few years now, and amidst all this turmoil, I put down just a few major tenets of online teaching. I'm not getting into the nitty-gritty, because there's already such a flood of amazing information out there. I just thought I'd try to boil down the major points that I have learned from doing this for 4-5 years. For me, many of the endless, uncountable miniature decisions we have to make about online teaching (and teaching in general) can be best answered by returning to these few considerations. I hope it can be somewhat helpful, and not just add to the cacophony. Good luck my dear colleagues, you are gonna do just fine. 1. Don’t try to replicate the in-person course— use the features and facts of online teaching to do what it is best at, not a poor imitation of brick-and-mortar class. 2. Make basic infrastructure as consistent and routine as possible (ie assignments
