Division of Education @ Lehman College: Online Teaching & Learning

Best Practices Checklist for Blended and Asynchronous Courses 

Overview

Course Organization

Communication Protocol

Presenting Content to Students

Assessment of Online Learning

Assignments and Measuring Student Performance

Staff Information 

Technology, Media and User Guides

Online Articles and Journals

Overview: 

In November, 2008, an Online Teaching and Learning Leadership Team was established in the Division of Education.  In collaboration and consultation with each other, evaluation of our own practices, contributions from colleagues and adaptation of great work from colleges that have blazed the path before us, we have created this checklist as a beginning guide to creating your blended learning (hybrid) or asynchronous course.  New understanding, experiences and features will inform updates to this checklist. 

We offer guiding principles, a concrete checklist and as many user guides/how-to/samples as possible.

A printable version of every checklist is available at the bottom right of each web page (scroll all the way down). 

Although the "printable version" centers all columns vertically, it still offers a powerful checklist for instructors as you design/prepare your courses.

An acronym key:

Online T & L = Online teaching and learning

Bb = BlackBoard

f2f = Face to face

DB = Discussion Board

Lehman College Division of Education: Online Teaching and Learning Leadership Team:

Leslie Lieman, Chair 

Instructional Technology Coordinator

Margo DelliCarpini 

Assistant Professor, Middle and High School Education

Roy Fernandez 

Assistant Professor, Early Childhood and Childhood Education

Lisa Gursel 

Adjunct, Early Childhood and Childhood Education

Laura Roberts 

Assistant Professor, Counseling, Leadership, Literacy and Special Education

Special thanks for contributions to this checklist:

Randi Shane

Bronx Community College, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences

Standards for Teaching and Learning in the CUNY Online Baccalaureate

CUNY School of Professional Studies Online Baccalaureate Program