This article comes from The Chronicle and is about teaching online courses.

It talks about the negative perceptions associated with teaching (100%) online, strategies for organizing and designing courses, and some best practices. I found the article interesting but also still have the impression of online courses as being of a traditional classroom size of roughly 24-30 students. For larger, near 100-student classes, the same strategies can still be applied. We just have to remember to split them into smaller, more manageable parts. I think this is physically done well in Vietnam with class monitors/leaders for each “unit”, but this same setup could also be used online- i.e. course website assistants and forum moderators.

I’m still not convinced of 100% online courses- I prefer the hybrid version I experienced in Vietnam- but this may be due to lack of experience on my part. Or, like the article says, I just may not be suited to teach online-only courses.

It’s an interesting read. ‘Would love to hear your thoughts.