Online Learning Update

March 23, 2016

How Faculty Learn To Teach Online: What Administrators Need to Know

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:09 am

by Steven W. Schmidt, Christina M. Tschida, Elizabeth M. Hodge; OJDLA

Research shows most teachers teach as they were taught. However, distance educators lack a model or benchmark for online teaching because many of them have not taken online courses as students. Indeed, many studies on teaching online point to the importance of training for online instructors. Few studies go into specifics about exactly what that training should look like. The purpose of this study is to examine best practices in professional development for instructors learning to teach online.

http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/spring191/schmidt_tschida_hodge191.html

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