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 * This article has some excellent advice for anyone who is designing a blended course! **

McGee, P. & Reis, A. (2012). Blended course design: A synthesis of best practices. //Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 16 //(4), 7-22.

As a core project, a university eLearning Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community (FLC) chose to apply recommendations for the “art” of good teaching to the online realm. There is relatively little discussion of this issue in the literature. In this paper, we use Bain‟s (2004) book //What the Best College Teachers Do// to discuss some of the major ways that the practices of effective teaching in general can be applied to online teaching in particular. Specifically, we explore methods of fostering student engagement, stimulating intellectual development, and building rapport with students when teaching online. This analysis provides a much-needed “art of teaching” set of recommendations that complements the “science of teaching” best practices approach to online pedagogy.
 * T. M. Brinthaupt, L. S. Fisher, J. G. Gardner, D. M. Raffo, and J. B. Woodard** Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132 USA Tom.Brinthaupt@mtsu.edu
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