Publisher's Synopsis
Online teaching and learning has surged in recent years, and faculty who normally teach in face-to-face settings are increasingly called upon to teach blended, hybrid, and fully online courses. This book provides insights from experienced university teachers and scholars across multiple disciplines-including social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, mathematics, and professional programs such as nursing, education, and business administration-who share their innovative practices, pedagogies, and instructional design techniques.
Using a common theme and structure, this work highlights and features effective, practical, and engaging ""best practices"" and approaches in online teaching and instructional design that can assist university faculty members and teachers, course designers and developers, and administrators invested and involved in online education. Each chapter is coauthored by faculty members possessing a wealth of experience and credentialing in online teaching and learning as well as instructional design in the relevant discipline or subdiscipline. The contributors provide specific tools and strategies that improve student engagement and outcomes, and address many subjects not typically associated with online learning, such as mathematics, composition/writing, drawing, the ""hard"" sciences, and speech, among others.
The book will prove to be an invaluable guide for faculty members and administrators in higher education who are teaching or designing online courses or entire online curricula, as well as instructional design staff who are working with and training faculty.
Distributed for George Mason University Press
