Online Classroom Management: Course Design Strategies To Minimize Problems & Promote Learning

Description  ChallengeWith so many teachers and students experimenting with new online and remote modalities, attention to course management is vital to ensure that students learn and that teachers survive and thrive.Key TakeawayWe typically only think about course management to deal with problematic situations. Still, course management's real promise is promoting a virtuous course where both the students and the teacher are thriving in a productive learning environment.OverviewThinking about course management may evoke a scene of a frazzled teacher trying to motivate and control a class of apathetic, confused, or disruptive students. Online and remote course modalities present unique and even unknown course management challenges that we need to consider and plan for; things can go wrong. However, good course management's real promise is promoting a virtuous online or remote course where both the students and the teacher are thriving in a productive learning environment. Thi