Author Description

This practical, engaging, and accessible primer reveals the best practices that faculty can immediately and directly apply in their own online or blended teaching. It is written for professionals new to the world of online learning who are looking for a brief, easy-to-understand introduction to the principles and strategies of teaching online. Ko and Abdul-Hamid report on the associations found between these best practices and student success, retention, and satisfaction. Enlivened by interviews with faculty practitioners and expressed in jargon-free prose, the authors demonstrate best practices and a variety of different real-world examples in which these practices may be applied by faculty teaching in diverse disciplines. The best practices revealed in this book are based in part on a long-term research study carried out at the University of Maryland, one of the world's largest and most respected providers of online education. Administrators of online programs will be interested in adapting these findings to their own programs, and those charged with training faculty for online teaching will want to incorporate many of these findings into their training regimens.