Resources for Your Faculty

Teaching Online Is a New Experience

As the higher education community adapts to working remotely because of COVID-19, we asked our faculty to share their insights learned from decades of online teaching experience. We hope that these resources will help equip your faculty to tackle the coming weeks and months, and better serve your students as they finish up their studies online.

Create Course Content with These Online Resources

The Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL) can help you develop course-specific content. Use the OWL resources to create your own customized “owlets” of content to embed within your courses.

Promote Development of Your Students’ Writing and Reading Skills with These Online Resources

If any of your students struggle with improving their writing or reading skills, encourage them to use the OWL as well as the Excelsior Online Reading Comprehension Lab.

7 Tips for Teaching Online

Read our 7 Tips for Teaching Online to help instructors who have more experience teaching face-to-face but have recently made the shift to teaching online.

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Teaching Courses in the Online Format

I taught face-to-face courses for many years and then transitioned to teaching courses online. My four questions to them were these: How would you show presence in the course? What content would be provided? How would you engage the students? How would you assess the students?

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Developing Guidelines for Evaluating Work for Online Courses: A Primer

I’m an ardent proponent for the use of rubrics, written guides for assessing student work, and in this blog post, I will provide some practical advice for individual faculty on how to incorporate grading rubrics into online courses.

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Academic Integrity in an Online Environment

Faculty who are new to online teaching may be concerned that students will be more likely to cheat in an online class than in an in-person class.

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