58 Online Teaching
12 Key Ideas: An Introduction to Teaching Online
Dave Cormier and Ashlyne O’Neil (University of Windsor)
2020
Licence: CC BY
This book is meant to be a short course to help you prepare to move to teaching online. Do a chapter a day. Or just pick the ones you like.
Formats: Online, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Active Learning Kit: Engaging Ideas for Live Online Instruction
Cheryl Colan (Maricopa Community College)
2021
Licence: CC BY
Active learning ideas for synchronous online class meetings.
Formats: Online, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
The Asynchronous Cookbook: Recipes for Engaged & Active Online Learning
Office of Digital Learning & Inquiry (DLINQ) staff contributors (Middlebury College)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Whether you’re teaching mostly in person but looking for some regular, asynchronous activities to add to your course, or teaching a fully online course, this resource is for you. The activities in this cookbook draw on research and good practice in online course design to provide recipes – concise and specific instructions and examples – for adding asynchronous activities to a course. Meaningful interaction between students and instructors is a key ingredient in all of these recipes.
Formats: Online and PDF
Beyond the Exam: An Alternative Online Assessment Toolkit
A Collaboration between McMaster University, Collège Boréal, and Brock University
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This resource was created to help reduce barriers educators experience in creating and adopting alternative assessment strategies. The toolkit contains a bank of exemplars, resources and instructions as well as a space for users to share back adapted or newly-designed assessment approaches that have proven successful for their learners and context.
Formats: Online, EPUB, PDF, and more
Conferencing Tools for Teaching & Learning: Best Practices
Lisa Gedak and Chris Ryan (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
An open resource that explores best practices for using conferencing tools for teaching and learning. Adaptable strategies and activity “recipes” for using various conferencing tools, including, Zoom, BigBlueButton, and Microsoft Teams.
Formats: Online, EPUB, PDF, and more
Course Design Companion Guide
Teaching and Innovation Team (Laurentian University), Sarah Bouchard, and Kelly Brennan
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC
This resource has been designed to provide faculty members with a basic course design framework that can be applied to remote teaching courses, online courses, and even traditional face to face courses!
Readers will be introduced to the backward design strategy and provided with tips for developing and planning their courses. We’ve also provided course design templates as well as interactive writing/note-taking prompts to facilitate the course design process.
Format: Online
Creating Online Learning Experiences: A Brief Guide to Online Courses, from Small and Private to Massive and Open
Matt Crosslin (University of Texas at Arlingto