The Skillful Teacher

Skillful Teaching Online
As argued earlier, online teaching does not represent a qualitatively
different form of practice that renders irrelevant any insights drawn
from classroom practice. The three core assumptions of skillful
teaching (good teaching is whatever helps students learn, 
good teaching is critically reflective, and the most important know-
ledge teachers need to do good work is how students experience
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their learning) apply equally online and face-to-face. Credibility and
authenticity in teachers are just as important to online learners as
they are to those in classrooms. And students in online classes feel
like impostors, run the risk of cultural suicide, lose innocence, and
experience incremental fluctuation, while also needing the sense of
community felt by their face-to-face counterparts. In particular, the
need to research how students are experiencing learning and 
the importance of demonstrating teacher responsiveness are as 
crucial in the online classroom as they are in the conventional one.