Customized Instruction

Customized Instruction

This excerpt from Bridge the Gap to Online Teaching focuses on scaffolding content, customizing the learner experience through alternative pace, path, or assessments, exploring the synchronous virtual classroom, and individual instruction for students.    To earn a...
Communication

Communication

This excerpt from Bridge the Gap to Online Teaching is an overview of issues related to communicating with our online students, parents, and their other teachers.   We will explore best practices for clear expectations, documenting communications, using different...
Inclusive and Supportive Online Communities

Inclusive and Supportive Online Communities

This excerpt from Bridge the Gap to Online Teaching is an overview of issues related to supporting underserved populations online, culturally responsive online teaching, and inclusive and supportive online communities.   If you’re interested in earning a...
Tech Tools and Resources

Tech Tools and Resources

    This excerpt from Bridge the Gap to Online Teaching is a survey of some of the Tech Tools and Resources that can be useful in online classes to increase teacher, social, and cognitive presences.   After reviewing categories of technologies with examples you...
Learner Collaboration

Learner Collaboration

This excerpt from Bridge the Gap to Online Teaching focuses on learner-learner collaboration.  In this five hour course we will look at the various ways that students can work together online.   We’ll review the benefits of student collaborative and ways...
Learner Agency

Learner Agency

This excerpt from Bridge the Gap to Online Teaching is an overview of issues related to learner agency.  We will look at ways we can have students create personalized learning goals in our own classes as well as options you can apply to have students assessing their...
Making Class Accessible

Making Class Accessible

This excerpt from Bridge the Gap to Online Teaching is an overview of issues related to learner supports and augmenting content.  We will review our responsibilities in supporting diverse learners in online classes, what it means to make our classes accessible, and...
Digital Citizenship

Digital Citizenship

This excerpt from Bridge the Gap to Online Teaching is an overview of issues related to digital citizenship.   In today’s digitally connected world we all need to work towards helping our students become positive and contributing global citizens.  This course...