Thrive Online: A New Approach to Building Expertise and Confidence as an Online Educator

Research shows that online education, when designed and facilitated well, is as effective as traditional campus-based instruction.Despite the evidence, many faculty perceive online education as inferior to traditional instruction-and are often quite vocal in their skepticism.Simultaneously, however, more and more students are seeking online courses and degree programs.Thrive Online: A New Approach to Building Expertise and Confidence as an Online Educator is an invitation for the rising tide of online educators who are relatively new to teaching online, and also for those more experienced instructors who are increasingly frustrated by the dominant bias against online education.Readers will find:• An approach that empowers online educators to thrive professionally using a set of specific agentic behaviors• Strategies for approaching conversations about online learning in new ways that inform the skeptics and critics• Strategies that celebrate the additional skills and proficiencies deve