On this task you have to evaluate activities and create your own rubric. We asked students of secondary education to provide their ideas on “Online Learning and Teaching” and present them in a documen

What is Online Teaching and Learning?

Online Teaching and Learning is one of the most popular types of distance education which continues to increase for the broader students. It takes place over the Internet as a part of E-learning and not in a traditional classroom with computer as the main tool for reading and evaluation. Online teaching is very common for secondary and higher education programs. Instructor has a different and supporting role and student has his own responsibilities. For Online teaching content is delivered synchronously and/or asynchronously. The population and institutions that use online learning increased over the last years and is a common academic idea that online teaching can provide instructions and learning equal to face to face teaching.

The content is usually provides as digital textbooks and handouts, or videos etc. Students usually use their computer online to interact with their instructor, and their evaluations essays, poster, presentation have to deliver online and digital to their teachers. Teachers usually use email, forums, discussion boards or instant messaging to contact, interact or evaluate their students and developed their modules and evaluation based on working online. Instructors design and build their courses based on online software that includes different tools and functions that are easy and useful for learners. These softwares allows instructor to provide course content by week, section etc, communicate with students and evaluate their work. Instructors have to guide students from “the other side” and students have to develop their new knowledge as they interact with the online environment.

Online teaching is a way to escape from the traditional classes, to join a course or an institution which is far away from you, to study when you want, 24 hour a day and be more independent for your learning in your life. The only thing that you have to do as a student is to have an access to a computer and Internet.

*For this document used details from http://www.wlac.edu/online/documents/otl.pdf