Linda B. Nilson - Online Teaching at Its Best: Merging Instructional Design with Teaching and Learning Research

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Online Teaching at Its Best is meticulously researched and organized. The authors demonstrate their decades of experience on every page. You can read straight through, as I did, or target your focus on the areas of teaching online that are most important to you. If you want to design engaging courses that help heighten motivation and deepen learning, this book is an excellent resource from start to finish.

Bonni Stachowiak, Host and Producer, Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast, Author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide, Dean of Teaching & Learning, Vanguard University, Professor of Business & Management

This is a necessary read for anyone who wants to do online teaching well during the COVID pandemic and beyond. Online education is no longer a nicetohave option; it has become a critical component in modern education. This book offers a structured approach to transitioning from traditional curriculum design to building systems that lead students to meaningful destinations.

Kathryn L. Neel, Principal, McGyver Labs, (an EdTech company)

Faculty facing the complexities of teaching in today's online environments need practical strategies for all formatsremote, hybrid, hyflex, and fully asynchronousthat are based solidly in scholarly research. Nilson and Goodson deliver exactly that in this thorough yet accessible and easytoreference resource. With its comprehensive review of both the instructional design and the teaching and learning literatures, and its planning checklists, charts, and multidisciplinary examples, this book is sure to be a wellthumbed manual for all who teach.

Flower Darby, Faculty, Instructional Designer, and Lead Author, Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

This book answers so many of the questions that faculty are asking right now. The second edition of Online Teaching at Its Best is the perfect blend of research, pedagogy, and instructional design for the postCOVID era. Nilson and Goodson provide feasible best practices and realworld examples for a range of online teaching contexts. Higher education faculty, instructional designers, and administrators will appreciate the depth and breadth of the text and the many ways the information in this book can be used to increase online success for teachers and students.

Diane Marks, PhD, Senior Instructional Designer, Department of Digital Learning, Florida Gulf Coast University

Faculty from all content areas designing, refining, or implementing a remote, hyflex, hybrid, or fully online course and their students will benefit from the practical suggestions based on cognitive research and the principles of effective teaching found in the second edition of Online Teaching at Its Best.

Laurie Pendleton, Executive Director of Curriculum and Assessment, ACUE (the Association of College and University Educators)

This book is a comprehensive resource for those looking to design and deliver courses in the remote, hybrid, hyflex, or fully online environment. The combination of researchbased principles and practical resources offer guidance for those seeking to design courses from the ground up as well as those who are looking to further develop their online teaching.

Dr. Jennifer Boman, Associate Professor and Faculty Development Consultant, Mount Royal University

Second Edition

Linda B. Nilson

Ludwika A. Goodson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Nilson, Linda B., author. | Goodson, Ludwika A., 1947-author.

Title: Online teaching at its best : merging instructional design with teaching and learning research / Linda B. Nilson, Ludwika A. Goodson.

Description: Second edition. | San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2021] | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021018711 (print) | LCCN 2021018712 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119765011 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119765035 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119765028 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Web-based instruction.

Classification: LCC LB1044.87 .N55 2021 (print) | LCC LB1044.87 (ebook) | DDC 371.33/44678dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021018711

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021018712

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From Linda: To Emma, Abby, and Sophiaall future online students

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From Ludy: To Leslie J. Briggs, former professor of instructional systems design at Florida State University, who challenged us to answer the burning question, What do models of teaching have to do with models of instructional design?