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Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

de Flower Darby, James M. Lang (Autor)

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"Find out how to apply learning science in online classes 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"--Informació facilitada per l'editor… (més)
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This is a useful book, packed full of good tips, but could have been a bit more concise in places. I found myself wishing for a bit more empirical evidence that these things work, but I understand not all of them are tried and true (yet). For skeptics, some of it may seem idealized, but one can push past the sunny language and see the point Darby makes. For example: "When they see the relevance of coursework, the thread that ties everything together, students are more wiling to complete activities and assessments in a way that promotes meaningful learning. (23)" Well, we know that's not always the case, but Darby pushes us to honor the highest potential. I very much appreciated the application of "small teaching" approaches and the advocacy that online teaching can be (and should be) meaningful and interactive. At this point, even those who had to "emergency pivot" to online teaching during the pandemic should have figured out that it requires pedagogical considerations and isn't just a 1:1 transition. From that perspective, I found some of the cheerleading excessive, but not to the detriment of the book's value as a whole. Darby offers specific ways to implement UDL (Universal Design for Learning) practices (i.e. "Provide multiple topics and questions in online discussion prompts" and "Let students sign up for groups based on a topic they want to delve into"). There's a lot of general wisdom as well, that isn't just applicable to online teaching: "Giving the students something to do while watching a mini-lecture video, for example, encourages active listening and attentive processing of new information." (187). That seems obvious, perhaps, but I think there are times in my own teaching when I've just dialed in the lecture or the listening assignment, without really connecting it to its own specific learning outcomes. To be sure, it can be tough to give that extra 10% sometimes, but the idea of "small teaching" is based upon making these small changes, one at a time, for greater cumulative effect down the road. Darby makes sure to reiterate this in the final pages when discussing how we approach challenges. And perhaps the most important question Darby asks is: "How will you keep yourself motivated? How do you plan to assess the impact of your efforts? (225)". THIS is the missing piece. Teachers can read books and attend conferences, filling their hearts and minds with myriad exciting ideas...but what happens when those experiments fail? Do we just assign "x idea" to the scrap heap, or do we sit down and assess what went wrong and what are the adjustments that need to be made? That's where the space/time is really needed, and perhaps institutions of higher ed would be wise to consider pedagogy-specific guided sabbaticals, increased PRODUCTIVE and CONSTRUCTIVE faculty reviews, and mandatory (and compensated) faculty peer groups. Darby's offerings are helpful for the already-motivated teacher, but should also be embraced by administrators. ( )
  rebcamuse | Mar 27, 2023 |
I picked up this book because the original Small Teaching volume was so insightful to me. Needless to say, this one is not a revolutionary to me as the original one. It's a bit more shallow since all the principles that were more thoroughly covered in the original are just simply mentioned without too much detail. To be fair, the author does recommend reading the original Small Teaching before getting into this one. So, this is more a sequel than a stand-alone book.
Otherwise, I got a few useful tips that are easy to implement and use. But I suspect this book will be most useful to more novice online course designers and teachers.
Disclaimer: I still find no value to discussion board that all these designers love so much. So, I did kinda skip the sections pertaining to that. ( )
  SocProf9740 | Jul 11, 2021 |
While the small teaching strategies may not seem as small as they are in Lang's Small Teaching book, a lot of these are scalable - you can start with one and keep growing.
Key takeaways for me: Instructor engagement with students is as important as in a face-to-face classroom - but it has to be better planned because the spontaneous encounters will not be likely.
Empowering students to increase their motivation is essential for student success: choice is one way to do this, whether that is giving options for assignment topics, options on how many discussion posts need to be written, options on how to work through the required material, or a segment of the course that is designed by students.
Transparency in assignment design - students need to understand why they are asked to work through certain tasks. Students need to get practice in successful online learning - this may be new for us, but it is definitely a new environment for most of our students.
Encouragement - something that can happen quickly in a face-to-face classroom takes more time and effort in an online class - be an online cheerleader. ( )
1 vota WiebkeK | Jan 21, 2021 |
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 plus some. The guidance that Flowers and Lang provided elevate online courses from correspondence courses to those with substantive human interaction. Read more ( )
  skrabut | Sep 2, 2020 |
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