Excellence in Online Teaching

Johns Hopkins connects online teaching with facilitation, accessibility, community and professional growth. Technology is considered alongside the conditions that help students participate and communicate. It suits current or future online teachers who want to review a course as a learning experience, rather than assume that uploading classroom materials is enough to create effective online instruction.

What you will learn

• Plan online facilitation and participation.
• Consider accessibility and inclusion.
• Build student community and review teaching practice.

Who this suits

Current or future online teachers, the audience explicitly identified in the provider’s recommended preparation.

Before you enroll

Begin with an actual learning need and check that the activity and assessment address it. Technology access, learner accessibility and feedback arrangements matter alongside the lesson plan. Use fictional or anonymized learner information for practice, and evaluate a design with learners before treating it as effective.

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Put it into practice

Redesign one fictional online discussion so that participation expectations, accessible alternatives and feedback are clear. Explain how you would check whether learners can use the design.

Source and review

This overview is based on the provider's published information, checked on 12 October 2026. It is an editorial assessment, not a claim that we completed the resource. Time filters are approximate study ranges; projects and exercises can take longer.

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