Is This Your First Online Class?
If this is your first online class, the Online Education Initiative
Links to an external site. (OEI) has made available some excellent resources on helping students get ready for the rigors of the online learning environment:
These tutorials will be included in the courses that are part of the OEI's course exchange. However, the tutorials are FREE to use, and do NOT require you to be part of the OEI course exchange. These tutorials cover a wide range of topics online students may find helpful, as well as some additional interactive tools.
Think also about netiquette, which is a mashup of the words "internet" and "etiquette." It describes guidelines for polite contact online. Below we've presented a visual adaptation of the Core Rules of Netiquette Links to an external site.. A universally accessible text version of this image is available at http://bit.ly/NetiquetteRules Links to an external site.. If you find this graphic helpful, you may use it in your course Links to an external site..