Acquire the necessary skills to deliver online instruction effectively and successfully!

Teaching online is more than just taking traditional content and posting it on a web site. The new technologies of the Internet challenge educators to re-examine their most fundamental assumptions about teaching and learning. Once you have developed a pedagogy for Web-based instruction, you are ready to master the skills and strategies necessary to facilitate online learning.

Teaching and Leading in a Virtual Classroom provides the tools and skills necessary to deliver instruction in a web-based environment. You will consider different kinds of online environments, asynchronous and synchronous forms of communication, approaches to online collaboration, assessment of student participation and projects, and more. Based in the Blackboard learning environment, you will learn how to manage all the course facilitation tools Blackboard has to offer.