Chapter 5 - Classroom Management
Beck, Evelyn and Donald Greive (2005) Going the Distance:AHandbook for Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty Who Teach Online, Ann Arbor MI: Adjunct Advocate. Evelyn Beck and Donald Greive provide some excellent suggestions on how to avoid plagiarism.
Engvig, Mona (2006) Online Learning: All You Need to Know to Facilitate and Administer Online Courses. Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press. This book pays particular attention to the students views and perspective on online learning.
Hellman, Stuart V. (2006) Online Humor: Oxymoron or Strategic Teaching Tool.? Available at www.umsl.edu/divisions/conted/education/mwr2p06/pdfs/A/Hellman_Online_Humor.pdf. Hellman suggests that teachers are not using enough humor in their online classes. Humor can create a better learning environment, help with retention of knowledge, and reduce stress, he asserts.
Ko, Susan and Steve Rossen (2004) Teaching Online:APractical Guide, New York: Houghton Mifflin, second edition. This book is an excellent introduction to teaching online and includes plenty of indispensable information on classroom management.
Lewis, Chad (2000) Taming the Lions and Tigers and Bears: The WRITE WAY to Communicate Online? in Ken W. White and Bob H. Weight, The Online Teaching Guide:AHandbook of Attitudes, Strategies, and Techniques for the Virtual Classroom, Boston MA: Allyn and Bacon: 13"23. Lewis provides some excellent advice on online communication.
Lohnes, S., and C. Kinzer. (2007). Questioning Assumptions About students Expectations for Technology in College Classrooms,? Innovate 3. This article questions the notion that Net Gen students want to use technology in the classroom.
McNett, Mike (May/June 2002) Curbing Academic Dishonesty in Online Courses,? Pointers and Clickers. Available at www.ion.illinois.edu/Resources/pointersclickers/2002_05/index.asp. McNett offers thoughtful advice on overcoming cheating online.
Oblinger, Diana G. and James L. Oblinger (eds) (2005) Educating the Net Generation, Educause. Available at: www.educause.edu/EducatingtheNetGeneration/5989. Everything you ever wanted to know about your younger students.
Palloff, Rena M. and Keith Pratt (2003) The Virtual Student:AProfile and Guide to Working with Online Learners, San Francisco CA: Jossey-Bass. This book helps instructors to understand the online student and suggests a number of ways to engage them in the online environment.
Priest, Lorraine (2000) The Story of One Learner: A Students Perspective on Online Teaching? in Ken W. White and Bob H. Weight, The Online Teaching Guide:AHandbook of Attitudes, Strategies, and Techniques for the Virtual Classroom, Boston MA: Allyn and Bacon: 37"44. Online instructors need to understand the online experience from the students perspective. Yet the vast majority of articles on online learning have been written by instructors and we have little from the online student. An exception is this fine article by Lorraine Priest.
Rowe, Neil C. (Summer 2004) Cheating in Online Student Assessment: Beyond Plagiarism,? Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration 7. This article discusses the types of cheating that occurs on line and suggests that on-campus testing is the best solution to the problem.
Twigg, Carol (September/October 2003) Improving Learning and Reducing Costs: New Models for Online Learning,? Educause Review 38: 28"38. The author urges colleges to unleash the potential of online learning.
Tyler-Smith, Keith (2005) Early Attrition among First Time eLearners: A Review of Factors that Contribute to Drop-out, Withdrawal and Non-completion Rates of Adult Learners undertaking eLearning Programmes,? Journal of Online Learning and Teaching 2. Available at http://jolt.merlot.org/Vol2_No2_TylerSmith.htm. This thoughtful article suggests that students drop out of online classes because they are overwhelmed by the technology and learning associated with an online course. Tyler-Smith suggests that a pre-course face-to-face induction workshop helps to relieve some of the problems.
Varvel Jr, Virgil E. (2005) Honesty in Online Education,? Pointers and Clickers 6. Available at www.ion.illinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2005_01/VarvelCheatPoint2005.pdf. Virgil Varvel argues that the anonymity of the online environment, and the physical separation between instructor and student, can lead to problems with academic dishonesty. Varvel suggests a number of strategies to overcome some of these problems.
White, Ken (2000) Dealing With Challenging Situations: Communicating Through Online Conflict? in Ken W. White and Bob H. Weight, The Online Teaching Guide:AHandbook of Attitudes, Strategies, and Techniques for the Virtual Classroom, Boston MA: Allyn and Bacon: 142"54. White suggests that online conflict offers a learning opportunity and provides a number of useful tips on how instructors should respond to online conflict.