ABSTRACT

Teaching and Learning History Online: A Guide for College Instructors offers everything a new online history instructor needs in one package, including how to structure courses, integrate multimedia, and manage and grade discussions, as well as advice for department chairs on curriculum management, student advising, and more.

In today’s technological society, online courses are quickly becoming the new normal in terms of collegiate instruction, providing the ideal environment to "flip the classroom" and encourage students to hone critical thinking skills by engaging deeply with historical sources. While much of the attention in online teaching focuses on STEM, business, and education courses, online history courses have also proven consistently popular. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new history instructors are rushed into online teaching with little or no training or experience, creating a need for a guide to ease the transition from classroom to online course development and teaching.

A timely text, this book aims to provide both new and experienced college history teachers the information they need to develop dynamic online courses.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part 1|53 pages

Administrative, Legal, and Technical Issues of Online Teaching

chapter 2|10 pages

Teaching to the Whole Class

Accessibility and Inclusivity in Teaching Online History Classes

chapter 3|8 pages

Balancing Act

Offering History Online from a Department Chair's Perspective

chapter 6|9 pages

Instructor, University, and Other Contributors

Balancing Copyright Protections for Online Learning

part 2|49 pages

Innovative Pedagogy for the Online Class

chapter 7|8 pages

More than a Mode of Delivery

Benefits and Challenges of Teaching History Online

chapter 8|9 pages

Intercultural Learning Online

Using Students' Diverse Perspectives to Build Connections to History

chapter 9|7 pages

Using Technology in Pedagogy and Assessment

Timelines, Story Mapping, and Edpuzzles

part 3|53 pages

Online Discussion and Interactive Learning

chapter 15|6 pages

Letting the Sources Guide the Way

The Dynamic Utilization of Primary Sources in the Online History Classroom

chapter 16|7 pages

It's All Relative

The Importance of Scaffolding and Course Design in the Online History Classroom