Hi everyone.

I will be writing a meta-analysis kind of post today.

Biggest question I have as a (near-future) blended learning teacher was, “how do I do it right?”  There are many resources out there like the ones that you all posted for us and others that come across online searching.  To me, it seems like researches are all saying, be a good instructor and you will be a good online instructor.  Examples of such are:

1. Stay current with pedagogy.
2. Provide multiples ways to reach to students with different learning style.
3. Provide contents so that students feel ownership and proud of their work.
4. Keep in touch with progress and make necessary interventions.
5. Have good ethics and morals.
6. Plan well and assess well.
7. Reflect on teaching and always seeking ways to improve it.   (All of above are taken from iNACOL standards)

In addition to those quality as teachers, online instructors need to

1. Develop orientation and tutoring sessions
2. Use online sources and face-to-face contents effectively. (Use animations, videos, audios for online sources, and hands on contents at face to face)
3. Be able to handle any technical problems with computers.(taken from Mortera-Gtierrez, Fernando. “Faculty Best Practices Using Blended Learning in E-learning and Face-to-face Instruction.” International Journal of ELearning 5.3 (2006))

From looking at different articles, I think “the best” online instructor is no different from the best teacher.  Standards in iNACOL are similar to Danielson’s framework.  We have to do the right things rights.  That is my mana’o from looking at different pedagogy of blended learning.