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Find out how to apply learning science in online classes The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom. This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains. Explains how you can support your online students Helps your students find success in this non-traditional learning environment Covers online and blended learning Addresses specific challenges that online instructors face in higher education Small Teaching Online presents research-based teaching techniques from an online instructional design expert and the bestselling author of Small Teaching.

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Written by renowned teaching and learning experts, this guide offers concrete steps to help any instructor striving to ensure that all students—and, in particular, historically underserved students—have an equal chance for success. Here you’ll find actionable tips, grounded in research, for teaching college classes online, in person, and everywhere in between. While we are pleased to offer this title as a print book, this title is also available as a free ebook for educators. To learn more and register for access, visit https://seagull.wwnorton.com/equityguide Praise for The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching “Sometimes resistance to change comes less from a difference in values than from simply not knowing how to change. This guide is a remedy to that conundrum—a lucid and inspiring collection of useful strategies and actionable know-how’s on exactly how to make teaching more equitable and effective at the same time. A must-read for all teaching communities, it is a book whose time has come!” —Claude M. Steele, author of Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do “Colleges are racialized organizations whose practices maintain inequalities in academic opportunities and outcomes for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and marginalized Asian American and Pacific Islander students. This book gifts practitioners and their students with the knowledge and practices needed to transform the classroom into a site of racial justice.” —Estela Mara Bensimon, founder, USC Center for Urban Education “I can’t praise this book highly enough. The authors have produced a thoughtful and well-written guide to creating equity-minded college courses. Into their deft summaries of the research and theory they have woven well-chosen examples, plenty of starter tips, and material for further reflection. Change the lives of your students, and reshape your teaching, with the help of this essential book.” —James M. Lang, author of Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

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