Recent research uncovered just a handful of distinct elements that set great online teaching apart from the merely good. The findings came out of interviews with eight faculty members who have won awards for their online teaching from three professional associations: the Online Learning Consortium, the Association for Educational Communications & Technology and the United States Distance Learning Association. According to the research, undertaken by Swapna Kumar and Albert Ritzhaupt at the University of Florida and Florence Martin and Kiran Budhrani at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, award winners emphasize five musts for their online courses
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