David Yamakuchi

Organization and consistency are critical to student learning outcomes.

Various technology tools are more or less appropriate for particular instructors and courses.

Feedback from multiple steakholders is critical to making course revisions.

Rubrics and feedback are essential tools to enable learning outcomes.

The syllabu and generar framework is key to creating the best learning outcomes in an online course.

Asynchronous discussion is preferred to synchronous.  For async discussion, more than just a few, but no more than forty students should participate.  For synchronous (chat) five or six is the limit.

Using tact to preserve learners' positive experience is key.

This module spells out methods to project your presence and authority as an instructor.  Professional experience, academic achievement, and other factors help.  This is important to communicate to students.

Managing student interactions is important as well.  The instructor should be the "moderator" in student interactions.

The course indicates having a good content management system (CMS) and a good familiarity with it. is the key to teaching online.  Almost all aspects of interacting with students are managed from the "CMS."

Student enthusiasm, attrition, and outcomes are heavily dependent on timely feedback, answers to questions, grades, etc.  Much as in a live classroom.