This article was written by Bill Pelz, a professor of Psychology at Herkimer County Community College, USA. It is about effective online pedagogy. I find it a good read. It contains some good examples of practice that I might follow in some day. Here is the brief summary about this article. The full article can be view at this URL .

Applied Online Padagogy

Principle #1: Let the students do (most of) the work.

Examples of practice include:

* Student Led Discussions
* Students Find and Discuss Web Resourses
* Students Help Each Other Learn (Peer Assistance)
* Students Grade Their Own Homework Assignments
* Case Study Analysis

Principle #2: Interactivity is the heart and soul of effective asynchronous learning.

Examples of practice include collaborative research paper and research proposal team project.

Principle #3: Strive for presence. This include social presence, cognitive presence, and teaching presence.

Please read the full article from the JALN (Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks) Volume 8, Issue 3, June 2004.