Despite a number of similarities between teaching college courses in a classroom (called face-to-face teaching or "f2f"), one major difference will either "make you" or break you" as you transition from articulate, well-poised,...
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Despite a number of similarities between teaching college courses in a classroom (called face-to-face teaching or "f2f"), one major difference will either "make you" or break you" as you transition from articulate, well-poised, charming classroom instructor to master typist, HTML-savvy online pedagogue. That one difference is how you design your classroom activities. One of the biggest misconceptions that beginning online instructors have is that "if I can teach in the classroom, I can teach online." Having worked with faculty for over four years now in developing their skills to move online, I have discovered that this belief is simply not true. There are dynamite classroom instructors who fail miserably online, and boring, lackluster, monotone classroom instructors whose online classes ring, whizz, and shine with learning. Teaching in the classroom and online require two totally different approaches to activity and task design for accomplishing your learning objectives for the particular class. However, before you start panicking and giving up, remember the following crucial aspects that are the same in both environments: if you really enjoy what you do, and you really enjoy working with students to help them learn and accomplish their goals, and you know that you are a good teacher already, then the transition from f2f to online is merely a matter of learning some computer skills, mastering the labyrinths of WebTycho, and most importantly, changing how you think about course design. Here are a list of the top six myths that I normally encounter in my training classes working with beginning online faculty, followed by a short identification of the problem with thinking this way:
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