Discover effective strategies for motivating students, managing online classrooms, and enhancing community engagement in this comprehensive online teaching course.
This course helps educators master the art of online teaching, focusing on motivation, classroom management, and the flipped classroom approach to enhance student learning and engagement in the digital space.
Proven Strategies for Motivating Students, Establishing Expectations, and Building Community Online
Introduction
A survey conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group regarding online learning showed that the number of students enrolled in one or more online courses was nearly 7 million in 2011. This was more than a half million increase over 2010. At the college level, 32 percent of students are taking at least one online course.
As online education literally explodes, the issue facing the education system is that teaching online is not the same as teaching face to face. If you’re a teacher, be it home school, public school, Bible study teacher, or someone who teaches a special skill or subject, you know this.Â
The question for many people wishing to transition to teaching in a virtual classroom is a very simple one:Â How do I do an effective job of teaching online?
That’s the question this course is designed to answer.  In this course, University of Phoenix Advanced Certified Online Instructor David Lantz walks you through the teaching strategies being used by the best online college instructors to teach in an asynchronous online course.Â
Lesson Materials
A total of 17 video lessons divided between 3 course modules constitute the core of the learning materials. Â These videos are recorded power point presentations converted to video designed to emphasize key learning objectives. Â Additionally, each module is accompanied by an ebook (PDF) designed to round out the video presentations. Â Each module is introduced and concluded by a video of the course creator, David Lantz.
A fourth module, Next Steps, concludes the course, and offers several other resources the student may wish to take advantage of.
Depending on the pace of the online learner, one should plan to spend about four hours going through the materials. Â
Course Organization
The course is divided into three modules. The first module, Creating a Culture of Self- Discipline Online, is designed to help you learn how to motivate your students to develop the self-discipline required to learn in the online environment. This module is, in turn subdivided into three parts.
· Learning Modality and Student Motivation
· Establishing Participation Expectations
· Building an Online Community
The second module, Managing the Online Classroom, recognizes that online facilitation involves three basic areas of focus: organizational, social, and intellectual. The instructor, therefore, should see his or her role as being that as a facilitator of online learning, rather than simply the “Sage on the Stage.” This module is also subdivided into three parts.
· Socratic Teaching: How to Teach by Asking Questions
· It’s ALL About What you Say and How You Say ItÂ
· Online Interaction: Best Practices
The third module, Preparing to Teach in the Flipped Classroom, examines the trend of having the student access the “lecture” via video/online instruction created by the instructor or another educator before coming to a face to face class. The role of the classroom teacher changes from Lecturer to Mentor. Rather than spending time teaching in class, the instructor uses learning-based activities. Doing this effectively requires the teacher to put a lot of effort into his/her course preparation up front. This module delivers the following three sessions:Â
· Enabling Your Students to Learn 24/7/365
· Creating Your On Demand Unidirectional MaterialsÂ
· Exploring an Asynchronous Learning Management Classroom.
Why Take This Course
The explosion in online learning requires educators who know how to teach online. Â Key research findings about student learning in the online classroom underscore the importance of having instructors who can manage the online classroom to insure that students learn. Â Online facilitation involves three basic areas of focus: organizational, social, and intellectual. Â How to Teach in the Online Classroom 24/7/365 covers all three of these aspects of online instruction to prepare you to teach online.
About David Lantz
Hello, my name is David Lantz. I’ve been teaching online at the college level since 2004. I was voted Faculty of the Year by the first graduating class of the Indianapolis Campus of the University of Phoenix. In May of 2012, I was awarded that school’s Advanced Facilitator Certification. In addition to teaching online for University of Phoenix, I teach for 3 other schools on such subjects as statistics, economics, ecommerce, and public relations. Five years ago, I set about the process of showing others how to teach online. I worked with my first pilot group of 8 students over a four week period to demonstrate best practice techniques for online, asynchronous teaching.  With Udemy’s powerful online course delivery system, I now have a way to take what we did in that prototype class and demonstrate the art of online instruction via video and downloadable text instruction.Â
Welcome to my course!
My goal for you in taking this course is two-fold: Recognize what it takes to do an effective job of teaching online, and prepare yourself to enter a field where demand is expanding rapidly.
To fulfill these goals, you will learn about the following three components of effective online instruction: Creating a culture of self-discipline so that your students are motivated to learn; Managing the online classroom to maximize student engagement and learning; Preparing to teach in the evolving online, "flipped," classroom.
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I have always enjoyed being a teacher. I have taught adult Sunday School classes and small group bible studies for the last twenty years. Outside of the Bible, I am an Adjunct Professor of Business Management and Economics for the University of Phoenix, Indiana Wesleyan University, and several other Indiana colleges, including Ivy Tech. I teach both online and face...
It was really beneficial and interesting. I enjoyed it
thanks a lot.
It’s ok, but you could have shown more examples, like a real class, show the option not just there are others. How to edit and post etc..
Yes indeed. It was quite an exhilarating experience. But being new in the game and not very exposed to digital tools during our youth (am Octogenarian teaching all my life, - from the chalk, a bit of technology and now taking a crack at online teaching because I do not want to bid goodbye to my lifelong teaching vocation) I missed many of the instructions like bookmarking, rating, comments, etc) I, however, have been missing your videos, ppts., audio, etc. failing to access to the initial introductions etc.One advantage of the ourse is that you can access to it as often as you wish as stated by Facilitator David Lantz. Indeed after going back to the videos, ppts., twice or thrice, all my doubts, confusion, misinterpretations were resolved, thanks to Facilitator David's very effective resilient formatting of the whole course.
So helpful, so far.
This course is giving me some direction in the way to teach a class. I am enjoying this course. I hope to be teaching soon and I hope that everyone will be disciplined and I can motivate them to learn more and stick with working on their degree.
The information is presented in a logical way. I also like being able to print out the Ebook information so I can refer to it later as well as make notes as I go along.
David is upbeat, clear and provides good helpful information. He states the objectives of each module and at the end, states how the objectives were met.
Instructor is clear, course is well laid out. Additional materials support the learning, especially having the slides with the text. Best - slides are not read by instructor but are expanded upon. I am reviewing this Udemy course as an alternative to developing in house training for our college's online instructors.
There are only three issues for me. First, all of the examples given are from the author's own materials, which are Christian based. It would be helpful to have a broader range of examples. Second, this is a survey course and gets some of the basic ideas across, but when things get technical, the specific information required to actually accomplish the tasks is missing. Even a link to useful YouTube videos would work. Finally, there are no checks for understanding, be they auto-graded quizzes or actual assignments. Since this course is priced extremely reasonably, my assumption is that the instructor is not interested in "grading" assignments. If I select this as the tool for my faculty to use to learn to teach online, I will have to create my own assessments.
The course started at a very basic level and builds gradually so that the material is not overwhelming. It is very easy to follow and understand and provides very helpful examples and suggestions. I will certainly be recommending this course.
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Beth B.
It goes very quickly -- hard to follow some of the material. Will review PDFs later