Teaching in a Digital Age

Teaching in a Digital Age is an open textbook by Dr. Tony Bates offering guidelines for designing teaching and learning. This is the 2019-updated edition, recreated here from its HTML and PDF editions. It looks at the fundamental changes under way in education, the nature of knowledge, methods of teaching both on campus and online, MOOCs, the role of technology and media, modes of delivery, open education, quality assurance, and the support that teachers and instructors need.

• Chapter 1Fundamental Change in Education
• Chapter 2The nature of knowledge and the implications for teaching
• Chapter 3Methods of teaching: campus-focused
• Chapter 4Methods of teaching with an online focus
• Chapter 5MOOCs
• Chapter 6Understanding technology in education
• Chapter 7Pedagogical differences between media
• Chapter 8Choosing and using media in education: the SECTIONS model
• Chapter 9Modes of delivery
• Chapter 10Trends in open education
• Chapter 11Ensuring quality teaching in a digital age
• Chapter 12Supporting teachers and instructors in a digital age

• Appendix 1Building an effective learning environment
• Appendix 2Questions to guide media selection and use
• Appendix 3Online learning quality standards, organisations and research
• Appendix 4Independent commissioned reviews
• Back matterBibliography

Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for designing teaching and learning is written by Dr. Tony Bates and is licensed CC BY-NC. It was published as an open textbook through BCcampus, and the chapters, appendices and bibliography here reproduce the text of the 2019-updated edition.

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• Figures: reproduced from the original open textbook; each is credited in its caption where a source is given.