01366pamaa2200229 4500 0000049829 20130118090000.0 111124 eng 9780470635230 (pbk.) LB1044.87 PAL 2011 Palloff The Excellent Online Instructor : Strategies for Professional Development Rena M. Palloff, Keith Pratt. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2011. xxii, 176: ill.; 24 cm. CITS Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index "The hiring, training, and evaluation of good online instructors is a high priority for online institutions. This book shows what it takes to develop a new instructor in order to promote excellent online teaching and describes the qualities of a good online instructor and reveals how to evaluate good teaching online. In addition, It includes illustrative models of faculty training for online teaching based on adult learning principles and best practices in faculty training and identifies how technology can be used to facilitate and enhance the training process"-- Provided by publisher Distance education Computer-assisted instruction Effective teaching Web-based instruction http://www.josseybass.com