Virtual Classroom Resources

The following documents will walk you through how to create virtual classrooms along with tips and tricks to online teaching:

CELT Presentation on September 18, 2020

Articles:

1. How to Create an Inclusive Virtual Classroom by Amanda Kern on Edutopia
2. Virtual Classroom Set Ups
3. Creating Classroom Community Online
4. Collaborative Circle Blog
5. A Place of Remote Belonging
6. Fostering a Strong Community in a Virtual Classroom
7. How to Create a Virtual Bitmoj Classroom in Google Slides or Power Point
   

Research Journals:

1. BERRY, Sharla. Teaching to Connect: Community-Building Strategies for the Virtual Classroom. Online Learning, [S.l.], v. 23, n. 1, mar. 2019. ISSN 2472-5730. Available at: <https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/1425>. Date accessed: 24 july 2020. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.24059/olj.v23i1.1425.
2. Rao,  K., Eady, M., & Edelen-Smith, P. (2011). Creating virtual classrooms for rural and remote
   communities.  Phi Delta Kappan. 92(6), 22-27. Available at: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1841%26context%3Dedupapers&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm0cO593zDLsXWjWeXe6OeFbAiXhFg&nossl=1&oi=scholarr. Date accessed: July 24, 2020.
3. Kay, R. (2018, March). Exploring best pedagogical practices for virtual classrooms. In INTED2018 Proceedings (pp. 311-317). IATED. Available at: https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:_yt3JdM_1nIJ:scholar.google.com/+virtual+classrooms+research&hl=en&as_sdt=0,33&as_ylo=2016&as_vis=1. Date accessed: July 24, 2020.
4. Marcia D. Dixson, Mackenzie R. Greenwell, Christie Rogers-Stacy, Tyson Weister & Sara Lauer (2017) Nonverbal immediacy behaviors and online student engagement: bringing past instructional research into the present virtual classroom, Communication Education, 66:1, 37-53, DOI: 10.1080/03634523.2016.1209222
5. Bettinger, E. P., Fox, L., Loeb, S., & Taylor, E. S. (2017). Virtual classrooms: How online college courses affect student success. American Economic Review, 107(9), 2855-75. Available at: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20151193. Date Accessed: July 24, 2020.
   

Virtual Classroom Platforms:

1. Best Virtual Software Platforms of 2020