Abstract
This study was conducted to explore the e-pedagogical skills of Instructors essential for online teaching. Online education is an emerging concept in Pakistan. Online education is a planned learning that normally occurs in a different place from teaching, and as a result it requires special skills for course design, instructions, and special methods of communication through technology. The main objective of the study was to provide a description of those pedagogical skills which were mandatory for online Instructors to teach their courses effectively. A sample of 38 Instructors was purposively selected from the Allama Iqbal Open University, and the Virtual University of Pakistan. These Instructorswere asked about their instructional responsibilities, method of teaching, the technology and online resources they used, and their assessment practices of students’ learning. Research instrument of the study was a questionnaire having three point Likert scale type questions, and two open-ended questions. The results of both quantitative and qualitative data indicated that teaching online courses is not the same as face-to-face teaching. The Instructor requires a set of e-pedagogical skills to teach online courses. Online Instructors require a special set of e-pedagogical skills to teach online courses.
Farhana Khurshid. (2020) E-Pedagogical Skills of Online Instructors: An Exploratory Study, Bulletin of Education & Research, Volume 42, Issue 2.
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