Article Preview
TopLiterature Review
Most of the teacher effectiveness evaluations measure the following three areas: course design, course delivery, and instructor behavior (Gravestock & Gregor-greenleaf, 2008). The instruction, content, motivation, relationships, and mental health have been found to be important in online education (Martin, 2020). The key features of effective online teaching have been grouped into the following themes of course design, course delivery, instructor behavior, student characteristics, and administrative support; with India and pandemic specific factors at the end.
Online course design must be highly organized with specific communication, monitoring, and feedback mechanisms. The activities must be aligned with the assessment and feedback to incur student engagement (Kilgour et al., 2019). Multiple formats can be used to utilize the multi-modal feature of online teaching with the integration of audio, video, text, and even game elements that can highly improve the effectiveness (Dhawan, 2020; Parra-González & Segura-Robles, 2019; Ravenscroft et al., 2017). The examinations require materials and methods that are different from those traditionally used to be effective (Melnyk et al., 2020). A constructive approach may be utilized to give more suitable assessments while also encouraging student autonomy by giving authentic tasks that describe real-world problems (Ravenscroft et al., 2017).