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Identify skills you need to teach online

Identify skills you need to teach online

From the course: Learning to Teach Online

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Identify skills you need to teach online

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- [Instructor] It's important to realize that teaching online is different than teaching in person, and there are some skills that are important to have in order to successfully teach online. First, it's important to have a certain level of digital literacy. While teaching online, there are a number of things that you'll need to do, including uploading and downloading files, using different internet resources, monitoring student progress, communicating online and more. But don't panic. This doesn't mean that you need to be an IT person in order to teach online. You won't know how to troubleshoot all technical issues that will arise. That's unrealistic, and your learners won't expect you to know everything. You are a facilitator, though, so it's important that you can either help them to troubleshoot their issues, know how to research the issues in order to help solve them, know who you can go to to ask for help, or create…

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