Description: The key, Darby suggests, is learning to love teaching online. To that end, her book offers instructors accessible, inspiring, common-sense hacks for connecting with students, finding passion, navigating the structural inequities of higher ed, and more--all with a focus on building rapport and relationships, the central ingredients of happiness and satisfaction. These time-tested strategies and hard-won insights promise to help online teachers find meaning, purpose, and, yes, joy in their work--and, consequently, to fulfill the enormous, largely untapped potential of online education.
Brief description:
Flower Darby is Associate Director of the Teaching for Learning Center at the University of Missouri. She is coauthor of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes and The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching.
Review Quotes: "With warmth, insight, and research-backed techniques, this book will help instructors motivate students while rekindling their own enthusiasm for teaching." --Travis N. Thurston, coeditor of Resilient Pedagogy: Practical Teaching Strategies to Overcome Distance, Disruption, and Distraction