Introduction to Effective Online Teaching
Why This Learning Experience?
This instructor-guided professional learning experience is designed to help educators learn on their schedule while still receiving meaningful support. Participants complete practical activities, connect ideas to real classroom practice, and build confidence through application-focused learning.
Learning Experience Overview
This self-paced course equips educators with practical, evidence-based strategies for designing, facilitating, and assessing effective online learning experiences. Participants explore the unique characteristics of online instruction and learn how to create engaging, accessible, and learner-centered environments that support student success.
Through ten modules, educators examine instructional design principles, engagement strategies, assessment practices, accessibility considerations, technology tools, and communication techniques that strengthen online teaching effectiveness. Throughout the course, participants build a personalized Online Teaching Toolkit containing templates, resources, strategies, and implementation plans that can be used immediately in their own instructional settings.
By the end of the course, participants will have developed a comprehensive set of tools and practices that support effective online teaching and promote meaningful student learning.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain key differences between in-person and online learning environments.
- Use backward design principles to align learning outcomes, assessments, and instructional activities.
- Increase student engagement through intentional presence, interaction, and collaboration strategies.
- Design formative and authentic assessments that support student learning.
- Apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and accessibility principles to online instruction.
- Strengthen instructor presence and communication practices.
- Evaluate and select technology tools that support learning goals.
- Develop and maintain a personalized Online Teaching Toolkit.
Who Should Participate?
- Teachers new to online or hybrid instruction
- Educators transitioning to digital learning
- Teachers wanting clearer systems and workflows
