Teaching Online Best Practices

The ECU Office of Faculty Excellence

The Office for Faculty Excellence offers teaching resources to faculty, including Universal Design for Learning, teaching online, and resources offered at other institutions on strategy and best practices.

Additional Teaching Online Resources

While other institutions do not necessarily use the same tools, there are a host of great ideas and best practices available to help you think through how to adapt your course.

• Excellent resources from Indiana University on Strategies to Keep Teaching.
• Strategies for Online Discussions and Assessments.
• Building Community in Asynchronous Online Courses

ECU Academic Technologies, ITCS

Faculty can schedule an appointment with a staff member from Academic Technologies to learn how to use available learning technologies to organize, design and facilitate online courses and assignments.

Universal Design for Learning

CAST, a nonprofit education research and development organization, also provides web-based resources for UDL in Higher Education.

Creating Accessible Content

Creating accessible documents and course resources is a necessary step when teaching online. The Accessible Content checklist provides guidance on creating accessible documents and content.