Eleven Ways to Shine Online
It was a Friday evening when I saw a little ad on the bottom of my screen looking for online English instructors. I was in
Noura Badawi, EdD
March 3, 2025
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What You Are Saying Online without Your Words
It is often said that much, if not most, of communication comes not in what we say but in how we say it. We might say something that sounds angry, but our facial expression demonstrates that we are joking.
John Orlando, PhD
September 20, 2024
From Barely There to Fully Present: Three Ways to Improve Your Instructor Presence
This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on February 12, 2018. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. I recently received a frantic phone call from a distraught
Diane Monsivais, PhD
June 10, 2022
Five Tips for Switching to Online Instruction
As schools across the nation announce they are switching to online instruction in an attempt to slow the rapidly evolving coronavirus pandemic, teachers everywhere are
Aurora D. Bonner
March 27, 2020
I Am Not a Robot
When students enroll in online classes, they are often wary and a bit intimidated by the experience. There are a multitude of concerns such as
Kelly Price, PhD, and Julia Price, EdD
September 16, 2019
From F2F to Online: Getting It Right
Successfully transferring a face-to-face course to the online learning environment requires careful preparations that take into account differences between these two modalities.
“If you simply take your face-to-face class and put it online and teach it electronically, you will fail miserably,” says Paul S. Caron, director of education at Lewiston-Auburn College, whose first experience teaching online taught him some valuable lessons about how to provide students with an effective, supportive, and motivating learning experience.
Rob Kelly
August 28, 2015
Overcoming Eight Common Obstacles of Teaching Online
Anyone who teaches online has run into problems within their courses. Some of these problems can be complicated and if not correctly resolved can do major damage to the online instructor’s reputation and opportunity for teaching future courses. This month’s column tackles the worst of these.
Errol Craig Sull
June 28, 2013
Working with Online Teaching Assistants
The presence of Teaching Assistants (TAs) in a college course benefits both instructor and students. An assistant’s responsibilities typically include grading, troubleshooting, and fielding student questions, and their role is evolving to meet the needs of the online classroom.
Melissa A. Venable PhD
November 29, 2012
Instructor Characteristics That Affect Online Student Success
Which online instructor characteristics help students succeed? It’s a rather basic question that has not been adequately answered. We did a literature search to find if anybody had done any research from the students’ perspective on what constitutes a quality online instructor. There were perhaps 10 articles by professors speculating about what they thought defined quality online instruction, but nobody had asked students.
Donald Orso, PhD, and Joan Doolittle, MA
November 2, 2012
The How, Why, and When of Posting Resources in the Online Classroom
Resources—that amalgam of nearly anything and everything related to the subjects we teach and offered to our students as “extras”—give students a broader, deeper, and enhanced understanding of what they are being taught. Resources come in a variety of forms and often reflect our deep interest in our specialties. Sharing them in the online classroom gives students a better learning experience.
Errol Craig Sull
July 12, 2012
