The Excellent Online Instructor: Strategies for Professional Development (Google eBook)

Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt

John Wiley & Sons, Jan 11, 2011 - Education - 200 pages

The hiring, training, and evaluation of good online instructors is a high priority for online institutions. This book shows what it takes to develop a new instructor in order to promote excellent online teaching and describes the qualities of a good online instructor and reveals how to evaluate good teaching online. In addition, It includes illustrative models of faculty training for online teaching based on adult learning principles and best practices in faculty training and identifies how   technology can be used to facilitate and enhance the training process.

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Review: The Excellent Online Instructor: Strategies for Professional Development

User Review  - Tony Amsler - Goodreads

Starting to dive into this first of 3 books suggested to me by Heather Feuerhelm ;) Looking for possible PD ideas. Got some great ideas for Professional Development activities to help teachers be better "online" instructors.

Review: The Excellent Online Instructor: Strategies for Professional Development

User Review  - Elaine - Goodreads

I'm still reading this but I am finding it very useful.

About the author

Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt are the managing partners of Crossroads Consulting Group, working with academic institutions and organizations on the design and development of effective online distance learning programs. Rena and Keith are also program directors and faculty in the Teaching in the Virtual Classroom program at Fielding Graduate University. They are the authors of Assessing the Online Learner, Collaborating Online, Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom, The Virtual Student, and Building Online Learning Communities all from Jossey-Bass.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Excellent Online Instructor: Strategies for Professional Development; Jossey-Bass guides to online teaching and learning
• Authors: Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 1118000900, 9781118000908
• Length: 200 pages
• Subjects: Education / Distance & Online Education