An Overview Of International 'online Teaching' Success Story

The Identification of Competencies for Online Teaching Success

Online Learning ◽

10.24059/olj.v16i1.215 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Paula Mae Bigatel ◽

Lawrence C. Ragan ◽

Shannon Kennan ◽

Janet May ◽

Brian F. Redmond

Keyword(s):

Online Teaching ◽

Course Delivery ◽

Attitudes And Beliefs ◽

Online Faculty ◽

Teaching Behaviors ◽

Relevant Research ◽

Teaching Tasks ◽

Teaching Success ◽

Critical Competencies ◽

Level Of Importance

This exploratory study examined teaching behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs (referred to as tasks) that reflect potential competencies for online teaching success. In this study, teaching tasks are those tasks performed during course delivery. Based on faculty interviews and a review of relevant research, 64 teaching tasks were identified and included in 7-point Likert scale survey instrument. It was distributed to experienced online faculty and staff asking them to rate the level of importance of a list of teaching tasks and resulted in a sample of 197 responses. Of interest was the fact that over half of the teaching tasks had a rating of 6.0 on the 7-point scale and more than half of the tasks that were rated 6.0 or higher did not load into categories using factor analysis. Further examination of the results is required to determine why highly rated teaching tasks did not fall (load onto) into any factor. Results of the importance of the tasks will form the basis of faculty development efforts aimed at providing faculty with professional development in critical competencies to ensure online teaching success.

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Determinants of Online Teaching Success

Expectations and Demands in Online Teaching ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-747-8.ch004 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 66-89

Author(s):

Sorin Walter Gudea

Keyword(s):

Teacher Effectiveness ◽

Online Teaching ◽

Online Courses ◽

Emotional Involvement ◽

Online Teachers ◽

The World ◽

Teaching Success

In this chapter, teachers share their thoughts regarding the determinants for success in online teaching that makes some online teachers successful. A brief review of the relevant published literature is followed by a discussion of the determinants of online teaching success, substantiated by copious citations from the interviews conducted for this book. Several issues identified by our teachers are very important for ensuring that online teaching is successful. Emotional involvement, teacher effectiveness, student quality, and technology reliability are only some of the issues affecting online teaching success. Teachers care deeply about their profession and find that the relatively static design of the online courses leaves little room for experimentation and quick adjustments. Online, they are more effective in helping students improve their writing. In the classroom, they are more effective in helping them reflect on the world.

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