Go Live! Best Practices for Synchronous Online Teaching

Synchronous online teaching can effectively address the challenge of personalizing the online learning environment by facilitating live interaction among students and instructors. Let’s explore how to design and deliver a synchronous online class that will optimize the use of live sessions, while still maintaining the flexibility of online instruction.

Kate Grovergrys is a skilled online instructor with over ten years of experience teaching Hybrid and online courses. She is proficient in effective technology integration and practiced in providing professional development and mentoring for faculty that are new to hybrid, online and multimodality teaching. She specializes in designing and implementing high quality online instruction with a focus on equity, inclusion, student engagement and success.

Tina Rettler-Pagel is a faculty member and Chief Online Learning Officer at Madison College. Her research interests include retention and persistence in the online classroom, women in higher education leadership and governance, digital equity and community college approaches to teaching and learning.