A Theory of the Online Teaching Experience

Abstract

This chapter sets out to present a theory of the online teaching experience, as viewed by the teachers of online courses. It draws on the core categories presented in the previous two chapters (“Central Ideas: Teaching” and “Central Ideas: Technology”). The chapter proceeds by validating the core categories by means of triangulation with other published research, by identifying relationships and interplay among the 10 core categories, and by formulating the theory in narrative form.