Online Teaching: Resources

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The ASU instructional design community has created this set of vetted resources as an essential toolkit for quality online course development and delivery. The goal is to provide curated resources, actionable steps, and an overall strategy to the rapid development of online course materials, activities, and assessments.

This on-demand self-directed course emphasizes effective online pedagogy with readings, lectures, and activities on the following topics:
* The importance of building community in an online course
* The key components of online student success
* Design principles for writing effective discussion questions and tips for successful facilitation in discussions
* Writing measurable learning objectives
* The Quality Matters rubric as a foundation for designing a “good” online course
* Various approaches for designing, developing, and delivering course content

This publicly available website has over 200 posts as resources for the design, development, and delivery of online courses. The articles, tutorials, and even a podcast are created and curated by the ASU instructional and learning design community.

Pat Gehrke, University of South Carolina (Webpage / YouTube)

Dr. Paul LeBlanc, President of Southern New Hampshire University

edX offers support for working, learning, and teaching remotely.

GoReact is a way for students to video themselves performing skills and allowing instructor to make time stamped comments easily. Student accounts are free until June. (Website)

Advice from international educators who are on prolonged online learning due to school closures. Compiled by Lauren Fernandez. (Google Doc)

Resources, tools, and support for teaching remotely.

Document owner / organizer: Daniel Stanford, Director of Faculty Development and Technology Innovation in DePaul University's Center for Teaching and Learning. (Google Sheet)

Interactive textbooks (most free of charge) from the Canadian educational software company, TopHat.

With digital education on the rise, the Action Lab at Arizona State University and the Boston Consulting Group worked with six leading universities and community colleges that have a strong track record of delivering digital learning to large socioeconomically diverse student populations. Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the resulting Making Digital Learning Work study provides actionable data, rich case studies and best practice recommendations for institutions looking to scale digital learning.

Use these filters to create a shortlist of courseware products that fit your unique instructional goals.
Filters inspired by theCWiC Framework.

The CWiC Framework supports courseware product and implementation evaluation by making it easier to align institutional, departmental, or course goals with specific solutions and differentiate the variety of products in the marketplace. A web-based, interactive version of the CWiC Framework is now available on LearnPlatform.

OCW makes the materials used in the teaching of MIT's subjects available on the Web.

How to listen to a Google Doc using Read Aloud.

How to listen to a Microsoft Word document using Text-to-speech (TTS).

How to listen to a PDF document using Adobe Reader.

App that converts text into audio.

App that converts text into audio.

App that converts text into audio.

App that converts text into audio.

Janice Carello, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Karen Costa, Online Learning Consortium Ideate

Mays Imad, Pima Community College