1. "Qualified online teachers stress that online teaching is less about the mechanics of distance education and much more about establishing an effective education experience – irrespective of the place and time of teaching. However, for many online teachers, getting acquainted with their students is a huge challenge. This commonly happens when an online class comprises of more than 20 students at once. So if the course is 100% online, with no face-to-face interactions, then how would you establish personal connections? Well, there are a number of proven ways to work around the problem."

2. "Effective online learning must, above all, focus on providing new skills and knowledge in rigorous ways that support transfer of this learning. Teachers must engage students in their content area as well as encourage active learning."

3. "By choosing your learning outcomes and corresponding assignments first, you are identifying essential content and attainable expectations for what you want your students to be able to do by the end of the course. This assignment-driven course, then, will likely look very different from a coverage-centered one in which topics are listed and scheduled. Instead, course content and practice activities are chosen to prepare students to successfully complete those assignments which measure essential knowledge and skills."

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