Welcome to Pillars of Effective Teaching Online: A Self-Paced Course
Welcome to Pillars of Effective Teaching Online
Wherever you're at in your teaching journey, this self-paced course can help you learn more about effective teaching online and discover strategies to apply to your Canvas courses. We've designed this course to be both a learning resource and a reference guide. We hope that you bookmark this course and use it as a reference whenever you're developing your courses in Canvas. Let's dive in!
Welcome Video
In this one-hour asynchronous online course, you will identify the key pillars of effective online teaching grounded in scholarship. We invite you to explore the value of and identify strategies for the three pillars: social presence, engaging students through active learning, and building a strong, consistent foundation through their course organizational structure.
Video Length
3:00
Course Objectives
Faculty who complete this self-paced course in its entirety will be able to:
- Identify the key pillars of effective online teaching grounded in scholarship
- Implement or enhance their social presence as instructors in the online learning environment
- Engage students through active learning in the online learning environment
- Build a consistent foundation through your course organizational structure
Additional Support with Teaching Online
- New to teaching with Canvas? Enroll in our self-paced course, Canvas Foundations.
- Learn about making your course accessible in our self-paced course, How to Make Your Canvas Course Accessible.
- Want to make your Canvas content look like this? Enroll now in our self-paced course, Beautiful Canvas Pages Made Easy.