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Scholarship July 4, 2025

The Excellent Online Instructor: Strategies for Professional Development

The Wabash Center

Author
Palloff, Rena M., Pratt, Keith
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, San Francisco
The hiring, training, and evaluation of good online instructors is a high priority for online institutions. This book shows what it takes to develop a new instructor in order to promote excellent online teaching and describes the qualities of a good online instructor and reveals how to evaluate good teaching online. In addition, It includes illustrative models of faculty training for online teaching based on adult learning principles and best practices in faculty training and identifies how   technology can be used to facilitate and enhance the training process. (From the Publisher)