Online Teaching Resources

Because of the global COVID-19 pandemic during the spring of 2020, colleges and universities found themselves rapidly moving all courses to online modalities, a format that many instructors were not experienced in or comfortable with. Academic librarians were called upon to help support faculty in t...

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Published inPublic Services Quarterly Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 172 - 178
Main Author Adams, Annis Lee
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Binghamton Routledge 02.07.2020
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Academic libraries
COVID-19
Instruction
Librarians
Online instruction
Pandemics
public services
Teaching
User services
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Summary:Because of the global COVID-19 pandemic during the spring of 2020, colleges and universities found themselves rapidly moving all courses to online modalities, a format that many instructors were not experienced in or comfortable with. Academic librarians were called upon to help support faculty in this sudden transition, as well as migrating their own library services and instruction online. For many, it felt like a mad scramble to find best practices for online teaching, or even just "good-enough" practices, as well as specific tools that instructional faculty and librarians could utilize to keep their students engaged and learning during such a trying time. At the time of this writing, some universities have announced that they will continue to hold most, if not all, courses online in the fall 2020 term. Resources to support online teaching are critical now, and they will continue to be important going forward even after the global pandemic subsides. The reviews in this column cover a variety of online instructional tools and instructional support sites. The resources reviewed range from providing best practices for online pedagogy, creating engaging formative assessment tools, developing video discussion boards, creating interactive images, using virtual bulletin boards for student collaboration, and ensuring online content meets accessibility requirements. These resources will be useful for librarians and instructional faculty as they continue to teach in the online environment.
ISSN:1522-8959
1522-9114
DOI:10.1080/15228959.2020.1778598