OL 2000.02 Essentials of Online Teaching

This course will address four themes of teaching online: being present and engaged, preparing to teach, creating a climate of belonging, and reflecting on your teaching. In addition, you’ll be given guidance and resources to help you in instances where students experience extenuating circumstances or engage in forms of misconduct.

Competencies addressed in this course are based on the Critical Teaching Behavior framework. This course supports best-practice in teaching and delivering an online course that is already designed.

Course Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to do the following:

• establish instructor presence in an online course
• create a climate of belonging in an online course
• identify characteristics of online student populations at Penn State
• prepare to teach your online course
• know where to get assistance to address technical course issues
• know where to direct students whose personal issues may affect learning
• reflect on your teaching
• know the resources available to improve your teaching