While teaching future instructors in online environments has its differences from on-ground classes, there are many sound pedagogical skills that can and should make this transition. This interactive presentation illustrates practical applications to prepare instructors to successfully teach online, increase faculty and student satisfaction, and promote student retention.
This session provides examples and applications for transferring traditional classroom pedagogical foundations to the ever increasing digital environment. For even the most experienced instructors, teaching online can be frustrating, confusing, and intimidating (King, 2002). Due to a drastic context change, there are several factors that may cause faculty who perform well in on-ground classes to not necessarily perform to their capacity in online classes (APQC, 2013). Despite the obvious context differences, there are many elements of traditional classroom management skills that can make the transfer (to both synchronous and asynchronous contexts) and thereby help increase the success of the faculty, bolster student satisfaction, and thus improve retention rates.
During this presentation, we will look at several elements of pedagogy specifically in the digital environment, such as technological tools, lesson planning, presentations, group and pair work, critical and creative thinking, eliciting, and feedback (Brown, 2007). We will discuss the adaptations that can be made to make these factors and others easy to integrate into the online context.
Finally, we will provide practical ideas on how to support the dual approach of classroom management and online pedagogy that leads towards increased student satisfaction and retention.