Posts Categorized: Online Teaching Resources

Hello! Here on the AdjunctWorld blog, we seem to ping pong back and forth between brief articles about finding online teaching work and those regarding honing one’s craft as an online instructor. This week, we will focus on the latter. Even if you aren’t teaching online yet, when you do land an interview ideas such… Read more »

The cover letter can be a very important part of the application packet. It details your interest and qualifications and also makes the match between those qualifications and/or experiences and the job you are applying for. I have two tips to share concerning cover letters. The first comes from my own experience in applying for… Read more »

As a social science online instructor, I’ve seen my fair share of politically-charged discussion board posts. Especially these days. Hotly debated topics are welcomed by a lot of in-class instructors, as it livens the classroom environment and may help drive home some important learning objectives. However, hosting such discussions online can be a bit more… Read more »

I just finished reading an interesting, brief article on the role of the online instructor’s personality in the virtual classroom. The author makes the point that we’ve long understood the role of instructor personality in the face-to-face classroom (with dynamic, humorous, “fun” instructors often receiving higher student evaluation scores than the stereotypical drudge of an… Read more »

I’m just finishing up facilitating an online Field Experience course. In this class, students who were actively engaged in supervised human service field experiences kept track of their hours, reflected on their experience in weekly journals, read relevant text materials, and participated in discussion forums all in an effort to help them get the most… Read more »

If you have signed on to teach an online class that is set to begin in the next week or so, you will probably be teaching over the holiday break.  Typically, online programs observe a traditional university break – at least two weeks spanning Christmas and New Years weeks.  The school will probably let students… Read more »

There are a variety of options for online classroom assignments, each assessing a different level of student learning (see Bloom’s Taxonomy for more information on these levels).  Quizzes and tests assess student knowledge and comprehension.  Discussion board assignments give students a chance to show their analysis and application skills.  Longer written assignments, like essays and… Read more »

I’m just finishing grading essays for the online History of Psychology class I am teaching and am again struck by the students’ tendency to stick with a Google search when conducting research rather than go to the rich, online academic journal database the university provides for them. Access to hundreds of online academic journals is… Read more »

I consider myself a patient instructor. I’ll spend quite a bit of time with a student who is struggling with academic writing, often stepping outside my role as a psychology instructor and entering into the realm of writing tutor. I don’t deduct a lot of points when I see a student struggling with their writing,… Read more »