In the Search of Online Teaching Improvements

 

In the Search of Online Teaching Improvements

Outline of the book: Routledge (2017). The Theory and Practice of Online Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Academic Professionals (3rd ed). Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. Retrieved from: https://n9.cl/k85v2

·     Purpose: To provide guidance to academic educators in the design of online courses to share teaching and learning experiences with students through the use of digital resources in both virtual and traditional environments demonstrating a wider command of electronic tools.

●    Thesis statement: Through the blend of new teaching approaches and a series of educational and technological tools, academic teachers are able to plan classes that integrate more complex online practices in the learning system.  

●    Audience: Students and Academic Professionals in  Secondary and Superior Education 

    I.    Introduction

A.      Chapter summaries

  II.     Essential characteristics of online teaching

A.      Entirely online courses

B.      Raising teaching awareness

C.      Current worldwide connections

III.    Resourceful guidance on online teaching and learning

A.      Differentiation with onsite teaching

B.      Key concepts of asynchronous, time-onsite and online teaching and learning

C.      Principal conceptions in relation to time management

IV.    E-tivities to actively learn online

A.      Main features of e-tivities

B.      Requirements for e-tivities design

C.      Front line testimonies

  V.     Diverse contexts of online learning

A.      Theoretical background for online learning

B.      For dimensions of learning online

VI.            Active recycling of previously-employed resources for learning

A.      Social and technological tendencies

B.      Reusable learning and teaching resources

VII.            Innovative teaching as a design science

A.      Technological usage

B.      Educational practices through technology