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What resources did you find helpful for learning about teaching online?

• hysan 7y ago
  Sorry, I don't have specific resources to point to although I guess I could eventually take the time to do a write-up. I used to be an in-person instructor at a development bootcamp (also taught prior to this). While there, I was also trained on how to do instruction online for the rare instances where it had to happen. This is where I learned most of it. I'm also an avid educational content watcher, so I've seen and tried to learn from the best educational content creators over the past decade or so. I've also followed the EdTech space, as a hobby, since before the MOOC acronym even came into existence. Combine all of that with tangentially related hobbies like: * watching and reading about game design and how to incorporate it into traditional learning styles, * listening to how podcasts and online content is created/delivered, and that's where I learned about teaching online effectively. I wish I could continue working in this space, but well... that's a story for another time.
• 3minus1 7y ago
  The best online class I ever took had this thing called "muddy buddies." Basically each week we were required to post questions about something we "didn't understand" from the assigned reading, and your assigned muddy buddy is supposed to answer. The genius thing about it is I would be reading the textbook and trying to find something I "didn't understand," but I didn't want to post a question that was too easy. So any potentially confusing part of the reading I would think about more closely until it was no longer confusing. Basically I was motivated to read everything closely because I was trying to find something that was actually hard to understand.