Teaching Online ((HOT))
Rivi Schulman
The Teaching Online Podcast (TOPcast), hosted by Dr. Thomas Cavanagh and Dr. Kelvin Thompson, is a monthly podcast for online and blended learning professionals conducted over a shared cup of coffee. Share with the hosts your thoughts on past episodes or ideas for new episodes via email (top...@ucf.edu), or join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #topcastnow. Follow us on Twitter at @topcastnow
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The University of Central Florida's (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as an open resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature.
Also known as remote teachers, distance teachers or virtual teachers, online teachers and online instructors are trained to teach students online. Online teaching jobs from home can range from blended courses that offer a combination of in-person and online instruction, to fully online learning.
Online teaching is well established at the college and university level, across all academic and vocational disciplines, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Teachers can find online teaching opportunities at 100% online colleges as well as in distance education at traditional colleges and universities worldwide.
Online teaching positions are increasingly growing across all subject areas and grade levels across elementary, middle and high schools. At a minimum, a bachelor's degree and relevant teaching experience are usually required for K-12 positions. Both online elementary teaching jobs and secondary positions continue to increase in demand worldwide.
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Due in no small part to the explosive demand for English language learning in Asia, as well as an ever-growing number of adults looking for business English lessons in order to further their careers, online English teaching job opportunities, have been experiencing massive growth over the past few years.
As English becomes more of a base requirement for future career success, the online education sector has seen an explosive increase in the number of children learning English as a second language online, especially in countries across Asia, like China and Japan.
A growing number of English learners are moving online to access fluent English-speaking teachers, especially in China, where the country currently faces a domestic shortage of native-speaking English teachers.
Demand for online English teaching is particularly high among the millions of young English language learners in China. In fact, the online ESL job market catering to Chinese students is projected to grow by around 50% every year for the next several years.
As a result, a growing number of online education platforms that specialize in teaching Chinese children to speak English are entering the market. Seeking to connect English learners with native English-speaking ESL teachers based remotely in North America and other countries that speak English as a first language.
Are the recent private tutoring regulations in China currently limiting your employer options? There's growing demand with non-Chinese ESL companies to teach English online with in major markets, like Japan, Chile, and the United States.
Remote teaching jobs come with a flexible schedule and can be either full-time or part-time. Do you want to maximize your earning potential? While you will have the freedom to set your own working schedule, it is strongly recommended that you make yourself available for online English lessons during peak times (early morning, evenings and weekends for online ESL teachers based in the United States and Canada) as much as possible.
Families do not pay tuition for a student to attend an online public school. Common household items and office supplies like printer ink and paper are not provided. Our enrollment consultants can help address your technological and computer questions and needs.
Faculty/instructors are invited to register for the Online Teaching Certification Seminar that is designed to help deliver quality learning experiences for their students. This course is 100 percent online and asynchronous.
For faculty/instructors who have not participated in the above options for certification, but have extensive experience teaching online (online teaching for 3 or more years), they will take a reflective self-assessment to route them into either the Online Teaching Certification Seminar or the recertification program.
Well-planned online learning experiences are meaningfully different from courses offered online in response to a crisis or disaster. Colleges and universities working to maintain instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic should understand those differences when evaluating this emergency remote teaching.
The temptation to compare online learning to face-to-face instruction in these circumstances will be great. In fact, an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education has already called for a "grand experiment" doing exactly that.3 This is a highly problematic suggestion, however. First and foremost, the politics of any such debate must be acknowledged. "Online learning" will become a politicized term that can take on any number of meanings depending on the argument someone wants to advance. In talking about lessons learned when institutions moved classes online during a shutdown in South Africa, Laura Czerniewicz starts with this very lesson and what happened around the construct of "blended learning" at the time.4 The idea of blended learning was drawn into political agendas without paying sufficient attention to the fact that institutions would make different decisions and invest differently, resulting in widely varying solutions and results from one institution to another. With some of that hindsight as wisdom, we seek to advance some careful distinctions that we hope can inform the evaluations and reflections that will surely result from this mass move by colleges and universities.
Online learning carries a stigma of being lower quality than face-to-face learning, despite research showing otherwise. These hurried moves online by so many institutions at once could seal the perception of online learning as a weak option, when in truth nobody making the transition to online teaching under these circumstances will truly be designing to take full advantage of the affordances and possibilities of the online format.
Researchers in educational technology, specifically in the subdiscipline of online and distance learning, have carefully defined terms over the years to distinguish between the highly variable design solutions that have been developed and implemented: distance learning, distributed learning, blended learning, online learning, mobile learning, and others. Yet an understanding of the important differences has mostly not diffused beyond the insular world of educational technology and instructional design researchers and professionals. Here, we want to offer an important discussion around the terminology and formally propose a specific term for the type of instruction being delivered in these pressing circumstances: emergency remote teaching.
Online education, including online teaching and learning, has been studied for decades. Numerous research studies, theories, models, standards, and evaluation criteria focus on quality online learning, online teaching, and online course design. What we know from research is that effective online learning results from careful instructional design and planning, using a systematic model for design and development.7 The design process and the careful consideration of different design decisions have an impact on the quality of the instruction. And it is this careful design process that will be absent in most cases in these emergency shifts.
One of the most comprehensive summaries of research on online learning comes from the book Learning Online: What Research Tells Us about Whether, When and How.8 The authors identify nine dimensions, each of which has numerous options, highlighting the complexity of the design and decision-making process. The nine dimensions are modality, pacing, student-instructor ratio, pedagogy, instructor role online, student role online, online communication synchrony, role of online assessments, and source of feedback (see "Online learning design options").
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