Lessons from the Virtual Classroom: The Realities of Online Teaching, 2nd Edition

Lessons From the Virtual Classroom: The Realities of Online Teaching, 2nd Edition

With the emergence of new technologies, and the need for universities and colleges to offer more online courses to their students, there is a great trend in faculty who traditionally teach face-to-face needing to learn how to teach online. Additionally instructors already teaching online may need help taking their courses to the next level. Sloan-C reported that 5.6 million students (30%) took at least one online course in 2009. With the economy and challenges for school funding, more colleges, universities, and students are turning to online courses.

Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt, the most trusted online teaching experts, have completely updated and revised LESSONS FROM THE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM: The Realities of Online Teaching, 2nd Edition (Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand; July 2013; $40; Paper; ISBN:  978-1-118-12373-7) to reflect changes in technology and advances in online teaching made in the last decade, in order to meet today’s online learning challenges. LESSONS FROM THE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM continues to offer helpful suggestions for dealing with such critical issues as evaluating effective tools, working with online classroom dynamics, addressing the special needs of online students, making the transition to online teaching, and promoting the development of the learning community.

LESSONS FROM THE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM is filled with numerous examples from actual online courses and insights from teachers and students.  New topics include the open source movement, Web 2.0, Google groups, and topics for the K–12 sector.