Small Teaching Online, Flower Darby
Small Teaching Online, Flower Darby
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Small Teaching Online
Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

Author: Flower Darby, James M. Lang

Narrator: Chloe Dolandis

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/30/2021

Synopsis

The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom.

This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains.

● Explains how you can support your online students

● Helps your students find success in this non-traditional learning environment

● Covers online and blended learning

● Addresses specific challenges that online instructors face in higher education

Small Teaching Online presents research-based teaching techniques from an online instructional design expert and the bestselling author of Small Teaching.

About Flower Darby

Flower Darby is a Senior Instructional Designer and adjunct faculty member at Northern Arizona University, where she's taught for twenty-three years. She also teaches online classes for Estrella Mountain Community College. Learn more about the Small Teaching approach at smallteaching.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeanne on July 25, 2020

5/7/20 I went from face-to-face teaching to remote this Spring – not something for the faint of heart. It is likely that many colleges and universities will be online or remote at some point in the Fall. Given that, I have been trying to consider how to handle this unfortunate and undesirable situati......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on July 31, 2020

Practical advice! I am a big fan of James Lang's original Small Teaching book, and Flower's edition aimed at improving online teaching was equally accessible and filled with helpful, easy-to-implement advice. I have a feeling this will be a godsend in the coming months.......more

Goodreads review by Stan on July 06, 2019

If there was one book I could give to faculty that taught them strategies for online learning and teaching, Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes would be that book. Darcy Flowers and James Lang have written a book that reflects the advice I currently give to faculty......more

Goodreads review by M.liss on July 16, 2020

This gave me some good, practical ideas about how I might be able to make my course more engaging and student driven in the online environment.......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on April 16, 2020

Many of you out there in the world have kids who have been suddenly thrust into on-line learning. This book review is from the person on the other side of the screen -- a University Professor. Teaching online is different than teaching in person, just as it is different from the learner. As the condu......more

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