Good practices for teaching with technology: Encourage contact between students and faculty
Following are some examples of projects by AT&T Fellows Program recipients at Indiana University that illustrate the good practice of encouraging contact between students and faculty:
Scavenger hunt to orient online students
Developed by Joan Lafuze, this scavenger hunt is used as a first assignment to familiarize students with digital library resources, forums, online quizzes, and how to get around the online classroom. For more, see Lafuze's Good Practices project page.
Team teaching and guest experts in distributed education
This good practice from Randall Osborne suggests team teaching for courses with interactive video formats. In addition, guest experts can be invited into online or web-assisted courses for asynchronous discussion on posted articles. For more, see Osborne's Good Practices project page.
Using technology to make professional development accessible to special education teachers
This project by Catherine Shea brought webcams into classrooms with student teachers, and accommodated discussion and coaching by email to develop participants' classroom supervision, critical thinking, and coaching skills. For more, see Shea's Good Practices project page.
For more information, see the AT&T Fellows Program home page and the Good Practices for Teaching with Technology page.
Last modified on August 22, 2008.
