Quality Teaching Online Resources and Tips

These resources and tip collections provide guidance to support programs and instructors in implementing quality teaching online.

Resources

• Adult Education Indicators of Quality Online Courses Rubric: This rubric was developed to help teachers better understand the components that go into developing an online course. These indicators will help guide you through course set-up, identify best practices, and develop strategies to make your courses more effective. Accompanying this rubric are a series of tips to help you dive deeper into some of the more challenging content areas.
• Adult Education Indicators of Quality Online Instructional Visual Aid Companion: The purpose of this image is to serve as a visual aid companion to the aforementioned rubric.

Tip Collections

• Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to teaching that works to create equal opportunities for all learners.
• Student Engagement: Student engagement has to do with students’ meaningful involvement in their own learning that incorporates behavioral, emotional, and cognitive aspects.
• Safety: Internet safety means protecting oneself and others from online difficulties that may jeopardize personal information, lead to unsafe communications, or even affect an individual’s mental health and well-being.
• Goals Objectives Outcomes: Defining and writing goals, objectives, and learning outcomes in adult education benefits both learners and instructors.
• Feedback: Providing effective and supportive feedback is critical to supporting learners in achieving their goals.
• Distance Education: Understanding the terminology for adult distance education programs in Virginia can help minimize confusion and establish unified norms.
• Digital Literacy: These tips help with getting learners started regarding their access and building digital literacy skills.
• Course Set Up: Knowing where and how to start when setting up an online course can greatly improve the learner experience.
• Building Community: An online community helps motivate students, fosters learning, and gives learners a sense of belonging.
• Accessibility: Creating accessible content is not just for individuals with disabilities. The aim of accessible content is improved access for all.
• Netiquette: Netiquette is a word that describes the do’s and don’ts of online communicating. Basic courtesy and common sense are generally the rule of the day when communicating whether face-to-face or through the Internet.
• Materials Technologies: Choosing the right materials that are level-appropriate, aligned to student goals, standards-aligned, and accessible to learners are important to supporting student outcomes.

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