A few tips for truly ineffectual teaching in the online environment:
1. Create lectures by reading lengthy stretches of text in monotone with complicated sentence structure (sans pauses).
2. Upload lengthy ppt presentations with walls of text to accompany #1.
3. Don't forget to make some complicated flowcharts and diagrams using ppt, because drawing in ppt is so much easier to use than any real illustration programs - nevermind that it is indecipherable and looks like crap.
4. Post related information randomly in multiple places in the course shell - online students are computer savvy (especially LIS student), they'll find it.
5. Be intentionally vague in stating your objectives for the discussion, and let the conversation flow where it may.
6. Berate the class when the discussions in #5 don't go where you intended.
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Hmmm sounds like you're talking about Rutgers to me.
Oh, have you taken online classes too?
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