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Excellent Online Teaching: Effective Strategies For A Successful Semester Online
Drawing on nearly a decade of teaching online, and many years working as a technical adviser and faculty developer in higher education, author Aaron Johnson will walk you through sixteen distinct characteristics of excellent online teaching.
What you'll learn:
- Strategies for connecting with your online students
- Effective ways to save time in grading
- Ways to give your students meaningful feedback
- How to communicate effectively in the online environment
- How to begin and end your online course with excellence
- How to effectively facilitate online discussion
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Excellent Online Teaching also has a companion website with resources for each chapter. Because this is a rapidly changing field, this book focuses on enduring methods for teaching online. The companion website contains updates, technical helps, and other resources.
"My hope is that you'll end the semester with a new level of confidence and with course evaluations that let you know that you are on the right track. More importantly, I hope that you and your students will be experiencing a vibrant learning relationship. If you have been teaching online for a while, I think you'll find some ways to improve your game." - Author, Aaron Johnson
What you'll learn:
- Strategies for connecting with your online students
- Effective ways to save time in grading
- Ways to give your students meaningful feedback
- How to communicate effectively in the online environment
- How to begin and end your online course with excellence
- How to effectively facilitate online discussion
Preview the table of contents for more
Excellent Online Teaching also has a companion website with resources for each chapter. Because this is a rapidly changing field, this book focuses on enduring methods for teaching online. The companion website contains updates, technical helps, and other resources.
"My hope is that you'll end the semester with a new level of confidence and with course evaluations that let you know that you are on the right track. More importantly, I hope that you and your students will be experiencing a vibrant learning relationship. If you have been teaching online for a while, I think you'll find some ways to improve your game." - Author, Aaron Johnson
61 pages, Paperback
First published May 14, 2013
About the author
Aaron Johnson
32 books127 followersAaron Johnson is the author of middle-grade mystery-adventure novels and non-fiction books in the field of online education.
Middle-Grade Fiction
Aaron Johnson is the author and illustrator of the middle-grade mystery-adventure books in the National Park Mystery Series. As a backcountry guide, he has lived numerous months out of his backpack exploring Rocky Mountain National Park and the wilderness areas of Colorado. He is a former high school and middle school teacher and the founder of the online hiking guide, Dayhikes Near Denver. With over one-million visitors per year, it has become the most popular hiking resource for the Denver Metro Area and Front Range of Colorado. Aaron lives with his wife and two daughters in Castle Rock, Colorado.
Explore more at https://nationalparkmysteryseries.com
Online Teaching and Learning
Aaron Johnson is Associate Dean of Educational Technology at Denver Seminary, a graduate school in Littleton, Colorado. As a veteran online educator, Mr. Johnson's goal is to support teachers transitioning to the online classroom and those who want to improve their teaching skills.
His books have become go-to resources for colleges, universities, and K-12 school districts. Their to-the-point style and practical ideas make them easy to read and immediately applicable. Readers describe the series as "useful," "helpful," "applicable," "reassuring," and "accessible."
His background includes work as a teacher, instructional designer, and faculty developer. During the initial days of COVID, Mr. Johnson was a sought-after aid to institutions that needed help transitioning their faculty to online delivery.
You can learn more at https://excellentonlineteaching.com
Middle-Grade Fiction
Aaron Johnson is the author and illustrator of the middle-grade mystery-adventure books in the National Park Mystery Series. As a backcountry guide, he has lived numerous months out of his backpack exploring Rocky Mountain National Park and the wilderness areas of Colorado. He is a former high school and middle school teacher and the founder of the online hiking guide, Dayhikes Near Denver. With over one-million visitors per year, it has become the most popular hiking resource for the Denver Metro Area and Front Range of Colorado. Aaron lives with his wife and two daughters in Castle Rock, Colorado.
Explore more at https://nationalparkmysteryseries.com
Online Teaching and Learning
Aaron Johnson is Associate Dean of Educational Technology at Denver Seminary, a graduate school in Littleton, Colorado. As a veteran online educator, Mr. Johnson's goal is to support teachers transitioning to the online classroom and those who want to improve their teaching skills.
His books have become go-to resources for colleges, universities, and K-12 school districts. Their to-the-point style and practical ideas make them easy to read and immediately applicable. Readers describe the series as "useful," "helpful," "applicable," "reassuring," and "accessible."
His background includes work as a teacher, instructional designer, and faculty developer. During the initial days of COVID, Mr. Johnson was a sought-after aid to institutions that needed help transitioning their faculty to online delivery.
You can learn more at https://excellentonlineteaching.com
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May 11, 2020
An easy read with some good ideas. It does often feel like someone just selling an academic essay on the topic, but it's well composed. Unfortunately with the online classes I'm preparing, I'm not sure how useful all the material will be to me. Might have to revisit this one day if I have more freedom over the correspondence I'm permitted with my students since the main focus seems to be "relationship building with students through remote learning."
April 16, 2024
Aside from a few grammatical mistakes, this concise book is well worth the read for anyone interested in teaching, specifically in an online context.
February 18, 2021
This book was recommended by Barbara Oakley's website, the professor who co-teaches the class "Learning How to Learn" on Coursera. As I consider taking a community college instructor role, this seemed like a good book to read. It's made up of 16 very short chapters and provides some great tips for online teaching. I can already see how I would apply some of the tips from this book in an online class I would teach. Besides the book itself, there are also links provided to supplemental material that looks like it will be useful as well. Definitely this book was worth reading.
October 1, 2019
Aaron has some fun ideas for making online teaching great. The whole book (all 50 pages of it) is focused on discussion-based courses. I teach high school math for an online school so a lot of that is irrelevant for me. There are a few too many spelling mistakes which unfortunately distract from the content and credibility. Overall, though, there are some good take-aways. The book should probably have been an article instead of an actual printed "book" that takes under an hour to read.
August 11, 2017
Easy to read, manageable short chapters with instantly applicable ideas. I read this for developing a future online course and ended up using many of the strategies right away for the course I was teaching this summer. Highly recommend!
March 22, 2020
Sharing with all my people
This was a great way to start structuring & wrapping my head around what I CAN do as we abruptly transition from classroom to online in these new times of social distancing. Thank you. From the bottom of my educator heart, thank you.
This was a great way to start structuring & wrapping my head around what I CAN do as we abruptly transition from classroom to online in these new times of social distancing. Thank you. From the bottom of my educator heart, thank you.
July 14, 2020
Helpful!
As districts across the US prepare for online classes, this book was helpful to me in planning and preparing myself and my colleagues. This book brought up things for me to think about while planning that I would not have realized I needed to think about.
As districts across the US prepare for online classes, this book was helpful to me in planning and preparing myself and my colleagues. This book brought up things for me to think about while planning that I would not have realized I needed to think about.
July 15, 2020
Awesome Reassurance in the Time of the Pandemic
First, I was moved by the intellectual and emotional intelligence of this text. What a gem of a resource! I am now smitten with Aaron as an author. I am an old dog trying desperately to learn new tricks to meet the needs of an incoming college freshman class without knowing what iteration of classroom configuration I am facing in six short weeks. I have been in a flat out panic and contemplating retirement because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to deliver. Aaron has reminded me I do know how to teach, I can learn, and I am still valuable. Aaron's soulful, sensible, professional approach to online learning is engaging, reassuring, and calming. I ordered the physical text and plan on rereading it daily. The resources are wonderful and invaluable. I have always told my students they are never alone. Now I know neither am I.
First, I was moved by the intellectual and emotional intelligence of this text. What a gem of a resource! I am now smitten with Aaron as an author. I am an old dog trying desperately to learn new tricks to meet the needs of an incoming college freshman class without knowing what iteration of classroom configuration I am facing in six short weeks. I have been in a flat out panic and contemplating retirement because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to deliver. Aaron has reminded me I do know how to teach, I can learn, and I am still valuable. Aaron's soulful, sensible, professional approach to online learning is engaging, reassuring, and calming. I ordered the physical text and plan on rereading it daily. The resources are wonderful and invaluable. I have always told my students they are never alone. Now I know neither am I.
August 11, 2020
Make the connection
Practical tips on how to give and receive feedback on assessments/course with examples from author's experience. Sometimes I felt the content was more tuned to adults, but that is because author deals mostly with teachers now rather than K-12. The online resources for a live book are very helpful. Thank you for sharing these tips.
Practical tips on how to give and receive feedback on assessments/course with examples from author's experience. Sometimes I felt the content was more tuned to adults, but that is because author deals mostly with teachers now rather than K-12. The online resources for a live book are very helpful. Thank you for sharing these tips.
August 20, 2021
For anyone who teaches online
Teaching has a lot of challenges, but is a rewarding experience. Online teaching has a new set if challenges and, regardless of your level of experience, Aaron has some tried and true methods and suggestions to better meet those challenges and better help you students.
Recommend.
Teaching has a lot of challenges, but is a rewarding experience. Online teaching has a new set if challenges and, regardless of your level of experience, Aaron has some tried and true methods and suggestions to better meet those challenges and better help you students.
Recommend.
June 6, 2018
Applies to Building Business Relationships
I’m preparing a training program but as I read the recommendations in this book it readily transfers to how to communicate clear and concise business missions / visions and receive buy-in from your teams.
I’m preparing a training program but as I read the recommendations in this book it readily transfers to how to communicate clear and concise business missions / visions and receive buy-in from your teams.
April 26, 2020
Learned about this book through Barbara Oakley's recommendations.
Useful and practical tips for online teaching. Particularly helpful for teachers to read in the middle of this pandemic. Easy read for a fast transition to online learning.
Useful and practical tips for online teaching. Particularly helpful for teachers to read in the middle of this pandemic. Easy read for a fast transition to online learning.
June 2, 2020
A good, succinct guide to online teaching
A good blend of principles and practices that can help you n your journey as an online teacher. A great starting place for your journey (and many educators these days have had to start that journey, like it or not).
A good blend of principles and practices that can help you n your journey as an online teacher. A great starting place for your journey (and many educators these days have had to start that journey, like it or not).
June 24, 2020
Consejos centrados en la comunicación y conexión
El libro es un buen recurso centrado específicamente en la buena comunicación y conexión con los estudiantes en un curso en línea. Es breve y pragmático. Recomendado.
El libro es un buen recurso centrado específicamente en la buena comunicación y conexión con los estudiantes en un curso en línea. Es breve y pragmático. Recomendado.
March 12, 2019
Not a lot of theories, just plain practical advice. Excellent reading.
September 16, 2019
Easy to read and very informative book.
December 15, 2019
Very practical. It gave me a lot of ideas to implement.
July 3, 2020
Good strategies for connecting with students.
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June 15, 2021Ccu tips on teaching recommendations
May 2, 2020
Very useful tips.
July 8, 2014
So incredibly reader-friendly! Not only did I pull many useful strategies for teaching my first online course, but I also found many great suggestions I can use in my face-to-face classroom to make better use of the technology I've been trying to incorporate (effectively and efficiently) for the past few years. Another bonus: the additional resources that are provided at the end of each chapter. This book inspired me to stop and work on my course as I read - a testament to its practicality.
April 30, 2017
I've been an online teacher for over 6 years now, so there wasn't a ton of "groundbreaking" info here, in my opinion. However, I could pull out a few useful tips, and I think newcomers to the profession would be helped by the practical advice given in such a succinct format. Great online resources as well.
December 12, 2015
Insightful Ideas, Easy to Read
A great book for new teachers as well as teachers who want to improve their online courses. Many of Johnson's tips simply require rethinking effective teaching for a different concept. The book is easy to read and the tips are easy to apply.
A great book for new teachers as well as teachers who want to improve their online courses. Many of Johnson's tips simply require rethinking effective teaching for a different concept. The book is easy to read and the tips are easy to apply.
January 3, 2015
This book offered very practical techniques for increasing student learning, engagement and ultimately retention in online courses. Definitely worth returning to.
May 26, 2016
Remedial at best.
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