Teaching Large Online and Blended Classes

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(32 31 30 1)>As the demand for online learning grows designing and managing large classes in online and blended learning environments can be challenging for faculty. This book aims to provide practical assistance to higher education faculty who teach large online or blended classes. </span>The authors who contributed to the book include higher education faculty instructional designers facilitators in providing faculty development and researchers with years of experience and understanding as well as interest in improving the effectiveness of large online classes. They share their experiences in designing and delivering active engaging collaborative teaching and learning by using innovative technology tools and instructional strategies. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>We hope that this book adds to the relevant literature by continuing conversations started before the COVID-19 pandemic but brought to the fore by it. Moving forward it is our intent to provide readers with examples of how instructors around the world adapted to the new reality of teaching online since early 2020. Distilling what has worked and why from areas that require further analysis would benefit us all by identifying strategies structures support services and policies that could augment online education with a particular focus on large virtual classes. </p><p> </p>