Teacher Interactive Links

  • Factual: sharing information on factual topics. 
  • Critical: an exchange of opinions.
  • Personal: an exchange of personal information.
  • Fanciful: entering into an imaginary scenario, such as a roleplay. 
  • Creative: the creation of a story or poem. It is important to have a variety of these task-types to cater for learner preference and also for different language use.c
1 Ask for feedback
2 Let people choose the way
3 Make it social
4 Invite learners to contribute
5 Encourage peer evaluation

Make It a Group Effort
Focus on 'Active' Learning 
'Chunk' the Lessons
Keep Group Sizes Small
Be Present
Parse Your Time
Embrace Multi-media Assignments

Other Good Reads
10 Essential Principles and Practices: Chronicle
Offers a number of Online Lessons: Scholastic 
An Instructional Model for Online Task-Based Interactive Listening for EFL_Learners

Recommended Elements For Online Courses

Learning contracts
Live Lesson and Instructions
Discussions
Self-directed learning
Mentorship
Small Group Work
Projects
Collaborative Learning
Case Studies
Forums

Learning Contract
Continuous Feedback
Provide Learning Examples or Models Online 
Encourage Student Brainstorming 
Possibility for Students to negotiate the contract.

Live Lessons and Instructions
Chunk Live Lessons into short parts
Embed and Link resources
Short live lessons serve as a basis for further reading, research, or other learning activities.

Discussions
Encourage participation
Encourage learners to explore their own experiences
Use other social platform possibilities

Self-Directed Learning
Individual and self paced tasks
Student presentation of work online
Sharing of work.

Mentorship
Mentor feedback on a regular basis

Small Group Work
Mimicking pair or group work in the classroom

Projects
Individual Projects
&
Group Projects

Collaborative Learning
Mixed level groups

Case Studies
Analyse and use Internet data and resources.

Forum
Chat or comment section for students to share ideas, post and mingle in the virtual world outside the class.