50 Ecoaching Tips for Faculty Teaching Online

Judith Boettcher

Welcome to this library of 50 Ecoaching Tips for Teaching Online.

Ten Best Practices

These tips are designed for anyone who would like additional ideas about how to design and teach a course in one of our many online environments.

These tips cover the fundamentals of what to do in the first weeks of a course, how to set up and manage groups, how to do assessment and how to wrap up a course in style. These tips also go beyond the structural fundamentals to addressing key learning strategies and the importance of a teaching presence in online courses.

Rita-Marie Conrad

These E-coaching tips are part of an actively growing library of tips created by Judith Boettcher and Rita-Marie Conrad, authors and consultants in online learning.

This library of tips was started in late 2005/early 2006 specifically to support the online faculty at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh (www.duq.edu) and now consists of over 50 tips. These tips are being developed as part of an ecoaching service for online faculty in Duquesne University’s School of Leadership and Professional Advancement. This ecoaching service provides supportive e-coaches who provide weekly ecoaching tips and who are available to answer questions, review courses, and generally provide a resource to help provide the best teaching and learning experience possible for faculty and learners.
Enjoy this library of tips. Let us know if you find them helpful.

Judith and Rita-Marie

We can be reached at ecoach followed by designingforlearning.info

PS. You may note that some of the tips are somewhat time-and-place dependent. We are in the process of editing these tips so they are more generic; but decided to post the library as is for now.

PPS. As an added temporary bonus, a set of Ten Best Practices for Online Teaching to get you started is included as part of this library of tips.

For information about this service for Duquesne faculty, please visit http://www.leadership.duq.edu/ecoach