I offer a revived and revised version of Lessons Virtually Learned, a presentation given at the 2002 (?) CALI conference on lessons learned from teaching a course (now many courses) online or with an online component. I hope it will be useful to people now forced to go online whether they like it or not!
Way back in the Summer semester of 1995, I offered a course called "Law and the Internet", on the Internet. For the rest of my career (I retired last June), every one of my courses had an online element, perhaps discussion forums, an email list, a class facebook, etc. One feature of all of those courses was an enriched syllabus, providing hyperlinks to relevant material, pre- and post-class notes, etc.
I gave a presentation about the evolution of that particular course at a CALI conference and decided to revisit it for revival and revision to offer for this, unusual CALI conference. In order to accommodate the 15-minute time limit, I have reduced the number of lessons learned (originally 9) to the most important 5, with slight emphasis on The Rich Syllabus (another presentation I made to a CALI conference years ago).
I should think this presentation would be of interest to any faculty being forced to teach online for the first time (and it will surely continue into the fall semester at least) and to any who already have some experience with it. The presentation is intended for faculty, will be non-technical, and attendees should leave with some ideas about how to enhance their and their students' online teaching/learning experience.
