In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many colleges and universities shuttered their physical campuses and ordered instructional faculty to migrate courses online. NCA’s Teaching & Learning Council, in collaboration with the NCA National Office staff, developed this list of online teaching & learning resources; please return for updates and new resources in the days/weeks to come.
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- 3 More Tips for Teaching in a Virtual Classroom—Inside Higher Ed
- 5 Ways to Connect With Online Students—The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 6 Ways Faculty Can Support Grad Students—Inside Higher Ed
- 9 Resources for When Coronavirus Moves Your Course Online—Campus Technology
- 10 Best Practices To Be An Effective Online Teacher
- 10 Ways to Make Your Fall Classes Better—Inside Higher Ed
- 15 Strategies for Online Learning When School is Closed—Global Online Academy
- “A general word on what it means to prep to go to online teaching right now”—Jacque Wernimont, Dartmouth College
- Advice for Classroom Continuity—University of Illinois
- An Emergency Guide for Getting Classes Online Quickly—EduGeek Journal
- Articles about teaching and learning: Our teaching-and-learning experts give you insights on what works in the classroom—The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Beating Pandemic Burnout—Inside Higher Ed
- Being a Woman in Academe Has Its Challenges. A Global Pandemic? Not Helping.—The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Communicating with Your Students During the Coronavirus—Tips for online education
- Creating Compassionate Video-On and Attendance Policies—Inside Higher Ed
- Experience, not Content, is King - especially online—Jim Vanides
- General Tips on Presenting on Camera—The University Speaking Center, UNC-Greensboro
- Going Online in a Hurry—The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Goodbye, Zoom Fatigue - Lucy Biederman shares some ways to teach effective online classes without using any videoconferencing tools at all.—Inside Higher Ed
- “Help! I have to suddenly teach online! What should I do?”—Steven Krause
- Higher ed and the coronavirus—A private Facebook discussion group where more than 5,000 campus officials share questions and advice.
- How to Be a Better Online Teacher—The Chronicle of Higher Education
- How to Best Assess Your E-Learning Programs—Inside Higher Ed
- How-To Distance Teach Tutorials—Google Doc
- How to Engage Students in a Hybrid Classroom—The Chronicle of Higher Education
- How to Humanize Your Online Class—Michelle Pacansky-Brock and T&L Innovations
- How to Overcome Classroom Zoom Fatigue—Inside Higher Ed
- How to Record a Great Speech for an Online Course—Northern Arizona University e-Learning Center
- Humanizing Online Teaching—Mary Raygoza, Raina León, and Aaminah Norris, Saint Mary’s College of California
- Leaning into Social-Emotional Learning Amid the COVID-19 Crisis—EdSurge
- Managing Large Lecture Classes online—Arizona State University
- Moving Discussion to Twitter—Medium
- Moving Online Now: How to keep teaching during the coronavirus—A collection of our best advice on teaching online during the pandemic, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Moving production course online
- “'Next Week, You Will Teach Your Courses Online': A Reassuring Introduction to Pandemic Pedagogy”
- NYU Shanghai Digital Teaching Toolkit
- Online Pedagogy: Lessons Learned—Rachel Alicia Griffin, University of Utah
- Quick Tips for Mid-Semester Transfer of Offline Classes to Online—Pat Gehrke, University of South Carolina
- Resources for Online Speech Teachers—Pat Gehrke, University of South Carolina
- Some Suggestions for Online Exams and Quizzes—Rebecca Barrett-Fox
- Speech Goes Online—Chris Gurrie offers tips on putting Communication courses online.
- Teaching Basic Speech online—League for Innovation in the Community College
- Teaching at a Distance: Methods that Work—Innovating Pedagogy
- Teaching Critical/Cultural Courses Online—Ashley Cordes, University of Utah
- Ten Tips for Going Online With a Basic Public Speaking Classroom—Jonna Reule, Valley City State University
- The Coronavirus Is Upending Higher Ed. Here Are the Latest Developments—A running tracker of the latest developments, updated daily and sent directly to your inbox from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning—EDUCAUSE Review
- The Guide to Hybrid: Opportunities for the Next Generation Campus—EBook by Class Technologies Inc.
- Tips for Online Tests—Boise State University
- Top 10 Tips for Moving a Class Online—Shannon VanHorn
- Transforming Teaching and Learning column: We’re All in This Together—Inside Higher Ed
- Transition from Tradition: 9 Tips for successfully moving your face-to-face course online (from eLearn Magazine)
- Upholding Rigor at Pandemic U—Inside Higher Ed
- Quality Matters Emergency Instruction Remote Checklist—Bethany Simunich
- What Does Trauma-Informed Teaching Look Like?—The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Yes, Your Zoom Teaching Can Be First-Rate—Inside Higher Ed
- 3 Handy Tips From the Pros for Taking an Online Midterm or Final Exam—Thomas Edison State University
- 4 Ways to Communicate With Professors in Online Courses—U.S. News & World Report
- 5 Tips to Succeed in an Online Course—U.S. News & World Report
- 6 Time Management Tips for Online Students—Northeastern University
- 10 Tips to Stay Productive When Studying From Home—San Joaquin Valley College
- A student toolkit to help you tackle remote learning written by students for students—Social Media for Learning
- Adjusting your study habits during COVID—University of Michigan
- Coronavirus and Federal Student Loan Refinance—U.S. News & World Report
- Free Resources for Online College Students During COVID-19—Azusa Pacific University
- How College Students Can Prioritize Mental Health During the COVID-19 Outbreak—Talkspace
- How to Create the Perfect Study Environment for Online Learning—Purdue University Global
- How to Deal with Stress in College During Covid-19—Study.com
- How to Succeed in Online Courses, Academic Success Coaching (VIDEO)—Tomás Rivera Center at UTSA
- How to Succeed in an Online Class—Hana LaRock
- Success Tips For Taking Online Exams—UNC Greensboro
- Taking or teaching online classes because of COVID-19? Here are some tips and tricks.—USA Today
- Tips for Learning During Disruption—Caleb McDaniel and Jenifer Bratter, Rice University
- Tips to Help College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic—McLean Harvard Medical School Affiliate
- What About Graduate Students?—Inside Higher Education
- What Makes a Successful Online Student?—University of Illinois Springfield
As part of NCA’s efforts to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, NCA identified a sampling of articles in the NCA journals relevant to the study of Communication amid crises and disasters. During 2020, NCA and Routledge, Taylor & Francis, made the articles free to access for a limited time. NCA members can access the articles below by logging in to the NCA website. If you are not an NCA member and would like to become one, click here to learn more about joining NCA.
Disaster Communication
- Sensemaking and crisis revisited: the failure of sensemaking during the Flint water crisis
William D. Nowling and Matthew W. Seeger
Journal of Applied Communication Research (2020) - Risk communication infrastructure and community resilience: does involvement in planning build cross-sector planning and response networks?
Joshua B. Barbour, David H. Bierling, Paul A. Sommer, and Bradley A. Trefz
Journal of Applied Communication Research (2020) - The influence of citizen disaster communication on perceptions of neighborhood belonging and community resilience
Matthew L. Spialek and J. Brian Houston
Journal of Applied Communication Research (2019) - Community resilience and communication: dynamic interconnections between and among individuals, families, and organizations
J. Brian Houston
Journal of Applied Communication Research (2018) - Message Convergence as a Message-centered Approach to Analyzing and Improving Risk Communication
Kathryn E. Anthony, Timothy L. Sellnow, and Alyssa G. Millner
Journal of Applied Communication Research (2013) - Disaster Narrative Emergent/cies: Performing Loss, Identity and Resistance
Phyllis Scott Carlin and Linda M. Park-Fuller
Text and Performance Quarterly (2012) - Crisis Communication: The Praxis of Response
Leeanne M. Bell
Review of Communication (2010)
Health Communication
- An Experimental Test of Stigma Communication Content with a Hypothetical Infectious Disease Alert
Rachel A. Smith
Communication Monographs (2012)
Education
- Anchors Away: Reconciling the Dream of Teaching in COVID-19
Keith Barry
Communication Education (2020) - When Professor Guilt and Mom Guilt Collide: Pandemic Pedagogy from a Precarious Place
Tasha R. Dunn
Communication Education (2020) - Teaching at the End of the World
Robin M. Boylorn
Communication Education (2020) - Stimulus Essay: Performing Pandemic Pedagogy
Roy Schwartzman
Communication Education (2020) - Minimizing the gap: A thematic analysis of student peer feedback perceptions in face-to-face and online speech workshops
Kristine M. Nicolini and Andrew W. Cole
Communication Teacher (2019) - The “Easter egg” syllabus: Using hidden content to engage online and blended classroom learners*
Kevin A. Stein and Matthew H. Barton
Communication Teacher (2019) - Investigating instructor misbehaviors in the online classroom
Jessalyn I. Vallade and Renee Kaufmann
Communication Education (2018) - It’s not the same thing: considering a path forward for teaching public speaking online
Susan Ward
Review of Communication (2016) - Nonverbal immediacy behaviors and online student engagement: bringing past instructional research into the present virtual classroom
Marcia D. Dixson, Mackenzie R. Greenwell, Christie Rogers-Stacy, Tyson Weister, and Sara Lauer
Communication Education (2017) - Practicing Nonverbal Awareness in the Asynchronous Online Classroom
Stephanie Kelly and Christopher J. Claus
Communication Teacher (2015)
Inequality and Health
- Framing social determinants of health within the professional public health community: research translation and implications for policy change
Erin K. Knight, Gregory D. Benjamin, and Danilo Yanich
Journal of Applied Communication Research (2016) - Information-Seeking Outcomes of Representational, Structural, and Political Intersectionality Among Health Media Consumers
Jennifer Vardeman-Winter, Hua Jiang, and Natalie T.J. Tindall
Journal of Applied Communication Research (2013) - Crisis Communication and the Underserved: The Case for Partnering with Institutions of Faith
Kenneth A. Lachlan and Patric R. Spence
Journal of Applied Communication Research (2011) - La Comunidad Habla: Using Internet Community-Based Information Interventions to Increase Empowerment and Access to Health Care of Low Income Latino/a Immigrants
Tamar Ginossar and Sara Nelson
Communication Education (2010) - Race, Risk, and Pathology in Psychiatric Culture: Disease Awareness Campaigns as Governmental Rhetoric
Davi Johnson Thornton
Critical Studies in Media Communication (2010)
Social Media
- Social support and digital inequality: Does Internet use magnify or mitigate traditional inequities in support availability?
Stephen A. Rains and Eric Tsetsi
Communication Monographs (2016) - How Audiences Seek Out Crisis Information: Exploring the Social-Mediated Crisis Communication Model
Lucinda Austin, Brooke Fisher Liu, and Yan Jin
Journal of Applied Communication Research (2012)
- Accessibility TPC: For Teachers to Improve Course Accessibility
- Best Practices for Rapidly Moving Your Face-to-Face Basic Course Online—Deborah Sellnow-Richmond, Illinois State University-Edwardsville
- Communication classroom videos on YouTube—Communication Coach, Alex Lyon
- Course Workload Estimator—Developed by Rice University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, an online calculator for determining course workload.
- Discussion Rubrics—University of Central Florida
- Distance Learning: A Gently Curated Collection of Resources for Teachers—Jennifer Gonzalez
- Getting Started—e-Learning, University of Florida
- Holding Debates in Online Classes—Stephen M. Llano
- How to hide your messy room for a Zoom video conference—Barbara Krasnoff, The Verge
- Introduction to Learning Space from the MLA—Anne Donlon
- Introduction to Parliamentary Debate—Ryan Guy
- Mapping Access—While creating material for online courses, ensure that the material is accessible.
- Organizational Communication Channel YouTube—Alex Lyon
- “Pandemic Pedagogy: Getting Your Classes Ready for the Coronavirus”—Dan French, via Medium
- Remote Learning Resources—Resources to help you start remote learning using Microsoft O365 tools in a short amount of time.
- Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption
- TRAILS—The American Sociological Association's online peer-reviewed library of high-quality teaching resources, including class activities, assignments, and more.
- Transitioning to Online Teaching in the Face of COVID-19 Webinar—American Sociological Association, Panelists: Melinda Messineo. Professor of Sociology, Ball State University. ASA Taskforce on Liberal Learning, Subcommittee on Online Learning; Kimberly Alecia Singletary. Instructional Designer, Educational Consultant; Matt Rafalow. Social Scientist, Google. Author of a forthcoming book on EdTech and inequality.
- Treating Yellow Peril: Resources to Address Coronavirus Racism—Open-Source Syllabus
- Web accessibility checklist—The A11Y Project
- Webcam Videography—Phil Ebiner, Skill Share
- 8 Strategies for Teaching F2F with a Mask and Creating Caring Classrooms—Jamie Landau, Inside Higher Ed
- A Guide for Decision-Making and Professional Development Planning During Times of Crisis: HiFlex Design—Open CoLab Plymouth State University
- A series of YouTube videos on Online Asynchronous and Synchronous learning—Peggy Semingson
- Part 1: Teaching Online in a Shutdown: Mobile Learning
- Part 2: Teaching Online in a Shutdown: Communicating with Students
- Part 3: Teaching Online in a Shutdown: Asynchronous Learning
- Part 4: Teaching Online in a Shutdown: Synchronous Learning
- Part 5: Teaching Online in a Shutdown: General Tips
- Part 6: Teaching Online in a Shutdown: Microlearning
- Camera On/Camera Off? Implications behind our attempt to replicate a traditional classroom model into a virtual space—@FIRSTGENLATINXEDUCATOR
- How I would approach fall semester: a personal Zoomflex-based view—Mike Caulfield
- Hybrid-Flexible Course Design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes—Brian J. Beatty
- Hyflex Learning, with David Rhoads—Apple Podcasts
- HyFlex webinar—Mary Dixson
- Instructional Playbook for Blended Learning—Clemson University
- Left To Their Own Devices: How college students manage remote learning during the COVID19 pandemic & how faculty can improve it—Medium
- Making Shapes in Zoom—Karen Costa
- Making Your Zoom Look More Professorial—Andrew Ishak
- Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 309: Hyflex Learning with David Rhoads—Teaching in Higher Ed
- Using Video to Assess Student Attention in Virtual Class Meetings—Torrey Trust
- Academe’s Coronavirus Shock Doctrine—The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Anti-Asian racism and COVID-19—University of Colorado Boulder
- Online Student's Manual for Success—Learn How to Become
- Online Learning Insights—Debbie Morrison
- “‘Students Are Lonely:’ What Happens When Coronavirus Forces Schools Online”—EdSurge
- “Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty”—American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- Trauma Informed Care in the Classroom: A Resource Guide for Educators in Higher Learning—Trauma Informed Oregon
- Trauma-Informed Practices for Postsecondary Education: A Guide—Education Northwest
- What Teachers in China Have Learned in the Past Month—Laurel Schwartz, Edutopia
- Amazing Education Resources—A community of educators sharing resources and support
- Best Messaging Apps For College Students—Brooke Barup, Society19
- Blackboard Support
- Canva—A free tool for creating images including infographics.
- Canvas Support
- CapSource—Powerful curated technology tools that will lead to project success.
- Comprehensive Guide for Educating Using Zoom
- Creating a Google Voice Number—Jennifer Hall
- D2L Support
- Explain Everything—Founded in 2011, Explain Everything is a for-cost teaching and learning platform dedicated to developing creativity-inspiring technologies.
- Flipgrid—A simple, free, and accessible video discussion experience.
- Fotor for Editing Photos—Free online photo editing tool.
- Free Teaching/Learning Programs—From the Facebook group “Amazing Educational Resources,” a list of companies offering free subscriptions to their teaching and learning apps/programs.
- Google Classroom Cheat Sheet—Information on setting up a Google Classroom
- Google Hangouts—Business Insider
- Google Jamboard—Spark students to learn, collaborate, and engage in active new ways.
- Google Resources for Teachers
- Google Voice
- Guide on how to use Fotor to add text and lines to a picture.
- Guideline for recording speeches at home—Central Michigan University
- How to Upload your YouTube Video—Deborah Sellnow-Richmond, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
- Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies and More
- Learning Space Demo—Create a course site on Humanities Commons from the Modern Language Association
- Loom—A free screen sharing tool with picture-in-picture feature.
- Moodle Support
- Packback Questions—This site, created by then students at Illinois State, is like having your own DigitalTA. They are offering no-cost use to those who are moving instruction online.
- Pixabay—Royalty free images
- Poll Everywhere—Capture powerful feedback instantly during virtual meetings, classes, events, and more.
- Privacy & Security for Zoom Video Communications
- Sakai Support
- Screencast-o-matic—A free screen recording tool.
- Setting Up Dual Screens in Zoom (even if you only have one screen)
- Settings for Preventing Zoom-Bombing—UC Berkeley
- Support for Microsoft Office
- Task Cards on setting up Zoom
- Tech Resources—CapSource
- Thinglink—Create unique experiences with interactive images, videos & 360° media.
- Quizlet—Free flashcards and other learning tools.
- User support for Moodle
- User support for Sakai
- Voicethread
- Zoom Support