Title: Best Practices: Online Pedagogy | Teach Remotely
Headings: Best Practices: Online Pedagogy
Best Practices: Online Pedagogy
This section provides principles and tips to help you teach online.
Some General Advice
Getting Started: Recommended Process
Content, Pedagogy, and Assessment: Guiding Principles
Asynchronous-Synchronous Mix
Norms and Expectations
Accessibility
Course Types
Lecture-oriented Courses
Creating and uploading your materials
Asynchronous: Prerecording
Synchronous: Presenting your lecture
Engaging students in lecture-oriented courses
Assessing participation in lecture-oriented courses
Case-based Courses
Calling Patterns and Practices
Board Plans
Closing the Case
Assessing Participation
Small Group Discussions
Hands-on Courses
Using Video
Engaging Students Remotely
During Class: Engaging and Energizing
During Class: Questions and Discussions
Outside of Class: Discussion Boards and Student Collaboration
Assessment
Additional Resources

Content: even as the online medium precludes certain forms of in-person contact, it creates opportunities for new ways to interact. Well-planned, intentional uses of online technologies can encourage and facilitate even more “lean forward” behaviors and more interaction with and among students. For example, as described below, you can increase learner engagement by: Identifying learners' questions about the material
Using polls and other interactive technologies to get a sense of students' experience, comprehension, and reactions ("reading the room")
Inviting specific students' answers (cold calling)
Opening the floor to general discussion of particular questions
Having students engage in small "buzz group" conversations via breakout rooms
Creating opportunities for synchronous or asynchronous student collaboration via tools like Google Docs, Miro, etc. Focus on your pedagogy, not the medium: the principles of pedagogy that are effective for online teaching – video, simulation, text, etc. – are similar to those that are effective in the residential classroom. They allow students to engage with material dynamically and across multiple learning styles. These principles apply not only to synchronous teaching but also, importantly, to asynchronous content creation. Asynchronous-Synchronous Mix
Based on your own pedagogy and teaching style, you can be flexible in choosing the right mix of synchronous and asynchronous learning.