Historian Michelle Moravec suggests five practical lessons she learned about teaching online from taking a MOOC. These lessons include:
- think more about time: get students to beta-test online course material, or if that proves impossible, overestimate the time needed to complete.
- create skimmable content: visually differentiate course content, such as readings, videos, resources, and tasks to be completed.
- facilitate face-to-face and online communication: emulate online 24/7 support by offering students a choice of platforms and awarding participation points for responding correctly to classmates’ queries.
- encourage experimentation: create explicit instructions for each step of an assignment, post links to external resources as well as relevant material from earlier in the course.
- offer advanced options: include at least one additional link to material for advanced study for students who wish to delve deeper into the material.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/five-lessons-for-online-teaching-from-a-mooc/56655