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5 Online Teaching Fundamentals for Online Educators

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Even if you’ve taught in the classroom, teaching online presents new challenges. If you’re preparing to teach your first online course, you may be wondering how online teaching differs from the traditional classroom. For some, this will mean doing lessons in the morning or during a lunch break.

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How Long Should My Online Lessons Be?

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If you’re planning your first online lessons, one of the first decisions you will have to make is how long your lessons should be. Some educators are easily able to find a comfortable pace that fits their own teaching style, and that pace may be faster or slower depending on their content. Not every lesson needs topics.

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Why Drip-Feeding Content is Crucial for ELearning

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“Drip-feeding” is just a fancy way of saying, “scheduled lesson delivery” Essentially, you can determine when you want certain content in your course to become available after someone purchase or signs-up for a course. For example, let’s say you have a website teaching a language. Pretty cool huh?

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Should You Take an Online Course Before You Teach One?

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But despite its rising popularity, many adults haven’t yet taken an online course—even though they may be interested in teaching one. While some learners left comments on the lessons, these were ordered with the oldest comment at the time, so that learners had to scroll through years of comments to find the most recent responses.

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Use YouTube to Build a Course in 3 Steps

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The wizard then creates a course with lessons for each individual video in the playlist. For example, if you have a YouTube series teaching users how to get started in investing, you may want to start with a video that discusses how much to invest. By default, each video creates a new lesson in the course. Watch entire videos.

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4 Learning Theories Every Online Educator Should Know

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Because understanding how we learn influences how we teach. However, as any good teacher will tell you, knowing something is not the same as teaching it. Subject matter experts who want to know more about how to teach a better class should learn more about how to design a good course. This is where instructional design comes in.

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Use Your E-Learning Course to Change Behavior

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Because learners sign up to take courses in French, or to achieve a certification in their professional field, we’re used to thinking about teaching those courses as a way of relaying information. Teaching a course is about helping that information stick. Teaching observation as a behavior ties in to the skill of drawing.

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