As distance learning continues to grow, ads continually appear seeking instructors to teach online. Many have experience teaching online, yet some also apply who have a solid education and great experience in a specific field--but have never taught online. This latter group of potential online instructors should not be dismissed merely because…

Online teaching is becoming increasingly more important and prevalent worldwide as the needs of the environment change. Technological advances certainly play a significant role in the ability to reach learners beyond the physical classroom. Reaching learners, however, does not necessarily equate with effective teaching and learning strategies.…

In this "Distance Learning" Special Issue, Errol Craig Sull introduces the "Try This" series of articles to assist with Becoming a Better Distance Learning Instructor. Sull notes, in this article, what the distance learning educator does in the first few days in a course can go a long way in setting the tone for the entire…

This research is a narrative which explains the development of a fully online master's program in education at a major public university. It was established in 2014, more than 6 years prior to the COVID pandemic. We asked our teachers and online faculty team to describe the characteristics of a successful fully online graduate program. Teachers…

Online learning discussion formats provide an opportunity for learners to share their experiences, negotiate meaning, and take ownership of the subject matter. Chat rooms also provide learners with anyplace and real-time ways to participate in academic discussions. Shared understanding occurs when individual experience mediated through group…

In this article, the authors adopt the framework of high tech/high touch in a discussion of digital technology integration in liberal arts colleges (LAC) in the United States, focusing on the New College of Florida (NCF). The authors believe that high tech/high touch is a useful framework with which to discuss the current changes in the higher…

Online education is quite popular in postsecondary institutions, and the increased use of the internet has changed how courses are being taught. There are a number of issues to address when planning for online instruction, but this paper focuses on the role of the learner, instructor/teacher, and the curriculum; discusses the status of online…

Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, graduate health programs have undertaken greater utilization of online learning, utilizing synchronous and asynchronous online lectures as a replacement for traditional face-to-face instruction. Although supported in previous literature as a method at least equally effective to traditional learning, online…

The purpose of the study was to investigate college language faculty's use of technologies to organize teaching and learning in language classrooms during emergency remote teaching (ERT) necessitated by the pandemic in the spring semester of 2020. The study used Mishra and Koehler's (2006) theoretical framework of the Technological Pedagogical…

There are differences in the benefits that are afforded by the two extremes of face-to-face and distance education. University campus courses are based on the assumption that the student community and interaction between learners and an expert teacher in the same physical location is essential to the learning process. In comparison, distance…

This study analyzed design and technological issues encountered by online course instructors as they taught 120 online courses while working with a designated instructional designer. Having developed the courses and having had them approved in compliance with a set, standardized rubric, implementation of the 120 courses brought out issues that…