Flower Darby - Small Teaching Online

For anyone teaching onlinenovice or seasonedSmall Teaching Online is a must-read! Darby expertly combines educational research and her expertise as an instructional designer to suggest practical solutions to challenges faced in the online environment in bite-sized chunks that don't overwhelm.

Mel Young, Teaching and Learning Innovation Hub, Cambrian College, Blogger, disruptivepedagogy.ca

Darby and Lang extend the powerful Small Teaching paradigm successfully to the online teaching and learning environment. Faculty who are new to online teaching are especially well-served with this superb introduction to research-based incremental strategies.

Victoria Mondelli, Founding Director, Teaching for Learning Center, University of Missouri

An unexpected delight! Flower brightens the literature she cites with her experiences and experiments in her own online classeswhat she tried, what worked well and what didn't, and how she improved on less-than-perfect results. You feel like you're getting to know her and finding a new friend and mentor.

Linda B. Nilson, Director Emeritus, Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, Clemson University

Any professor would find this book useful, whether you teach entirely online, in a flipped classroom, or just want your course website to be more than a folder of readings. Flower Darby mixes her rich experience as a teacher and learner with a careful review of the most current literature to bring us a work that's deep with context and immediately applicable.

Joseph M. Murphy, Director of the Center for Innovative Pedagogy, Kenyon College.

In his book Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, Jim Lang provided instructors with practical, simple, and easy strategies for maximizing student learning and success. Flower Darby and Lang now offer Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes, an equally important book for those who strive to create engaged learning experiences for students in an online environment. This will be really helpful to many instructors, whether teaching online or face-to-face or in a hybrid format. Indeed, anyone who cares about student learning and student success in the 21st century would benefit from implementing the lessons presented in this book.

Dr. Jerry Daday, Executive Associate Dean, Institute for Engaged Learning, Professor of Sociology, IUPUI

The work of teaching is hard. Coupled with the often-uncharted paths involved in teaching online, it can feel downright discouraging. Enter Small Teaching Online. It is a practical guide to help us design our online classes to support learning, be more experimental in our pedagogy, give effective feedback, help students persist, and create more authentic connections. This book helps us see how we can continue to iterate one small step at a time toward excellence in online teaching.

Bonni Stachowiak, director, Institute for Faculty Development, Vanguard University; host, Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

What faculty members teaching online need most of all are research-based, but very practical, strategies they can use in their online learning environments tomorrow. Darby and Lang's book, chocked full of great ideas that faculty can use right away, is just the resource we have all been looking for.

Larry Gallagher, former Director of Faculty Professional Development at Northern Arizona University

Flower Darby

James M. Lang

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For Emerald, Piccadilly, and Britannia, for whom I learned to teach online so I could be home when they were small.

Flower Darby is a senior instructional designer and adjunct faculty member at Northern Arizona University, where she has taught for over 22 years. She is also adjunct online faculty for Estrella Mountain Community College. She's taught over 75 online classes to more than 2,000 online students. Darby also teaches in-person and blended courses in a range of subjects: English literature, composition, technology, education, dance, and fitness. She regularly writes and presents nationally and internationally on excellence in teaching and learning design. She is zealous in her promotion of student success through effective classroom practice, whether the classroom is physical or online. Her bachelor's and master's degrees are from Northern Arizona University in English literature.

James M. Lang is a professor of English and the director of the D'Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of five books, the most recent of which are Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning