How to teach online effectively: methods that are easy to apply

In recent years, online teaching methods has become more and more popular in Vietnam thanks to its convenience, variety and fit with the needs of most pupils and students. Even though the method is fairly common, many people still do not know how to teach online effectively.

Don't worry. In this article, MONA Media will share everything in this online teaching guide to deliver the best learning experience for both teachers and learners!

What are the limitations of traditional teaching compared with online teaching?

Limited interaction between teacher and learner

In a traditional classroom, students and teachers talk to each other directly. If there is any problem with the lesson, students can ask and share their views right away. Teachers, in turn, can watch how students learn and absorb the lesson in class.

In online teaching, this interaction and exchange happen through supporting tools such as chat, messaging or audio,…

Less effective for students who lack initiative

Because students have more control over when and where they study, learning will not work well without self-motivation. In a classroom, teachers can remind students to focus and finish their work. With online teaching, the whole process depends on the students' own discipline.

Uneven equipment

Depending on each student's circumstances and needs, investment in equipment for online teaching as well as internet service varies enormously. In shared online sessions, some students cannot keep up with the lesson because of technical problems.

As a result, online learning is sometimes interrupted many times during a lesson and is not as smooth as usual. This not only lowers the quality of the lesson but also makes students lose focus.

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What are the benefits of online teaching?

Practical online teaching experience that fits today's education trends has opened up more flexible and effective learning opportunities. Among them are some benefits of choosing online teaching include the following:

• Save cost and time: Teachers do not need to travel between locations. They also have more time to invest in better training quality.
• Flexible teaching formats: Online teaching lets learning happen anywhere, anytime. With online teaching experience, teachers can also apply varied formats, from videos and e-lectures to learning games,…
• Support for absorbing knowledge: Students can rewatch lessons they did not fully understand and reinforce their learning more actively. Access to knowledge is no longer limited by the traditional classroom.
• Global connection: Online teaching brings benefits beyond education and also strengthens community connections. It opens more opportunities to interact and learn from experts and classmates around the world.  

The 3 most popular forms of online teaching

With the support of technology, online teaching formats are now very diverse. At a basic level, you can consider 3 online teaching methods below.

Online courses on an e-learning platform

Teachers and lecturers design the curriculum, plan the teaching for the whole course, and prepare all materials, content and lecture videos. These courses are then sold through E-learning.

platforms.

After signing up on online education platforms, learners can freely choose the courses and programs they want. They can study anywhere, at any time.

Teaching online through video and chat platforms Unlike prepared courses, online teaching by video

happens in real time. Both teachers and students join the online class at the same time and can talk and interact with each other.

With this form of online teaching, the lecture content may not be polished or perfect, but the interaction helps students absorb the material more effectively.

Online tutoring Online tutoring

is one-on-one online teaching. Online tutoring follows a similar education model, except that the instruction is delivered online.

A guide to teaching online effectively

Typically, with this form of online teaching, tutors prepare only about 30% of the content in advance. The rest is adjusted and added to according to the student's situation and needs, to make each lesson more effective. Teaching online is not just uploading lectures to the internet. To make sure students understand easily, absorb the material and stay focused throughout, teachers need suitable online teaching experience. Here is an effective online teaching guide

that you can consult and apply right away.

The effective way to teach online is to understand learners' needs

• Learners The first step in an effective online teaching guide is to clearly identify the following learner needs:
• Instructor needs to be considered from several angles, such as field, topic and specific content.
• Costsuch as expertise, level and experience.

: free, low tuition, high tuition; needs around teaching methods,…

These factors help you match learners' needs with the products and services you offer, so you can create effective courses and programs that fit what students want. When they find a course they like, learners are more motivated throughout their online study.

Prepare your teaching content

If you build ready-made courses to sell on an online teaching platform, prepare the content and topics that students really care about.

Spend less time on general overviews and more time on specific, practical issues.

• If you are preparing programs for online classes or online tutoring, consider the following:
• What your students are struggling with.
• Pay attention to students' messages and comments so you can add suitable extensions.

Watch the time so all the main content is covered.

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Choose a suitable online teaching platform

Depending on how you teach online, you can consider different platforms to make sure you have enough tools and features for the whole lesson. At the same time, your students can join, follow and take part in the course as simply and conveniently as possible.

With so many online teaching software options today, the task of choosing a platform or online teaching software that fits them takes careful thought. Schools and education centers should choose the right application based on their training goals, cost-effectiveness, ease of use and compatibility with many devices.

MONA is one of the leading providers of LMS systems for education, with the solution Center management software – MONA LMS. Management becomes hard when centers and schools do not know how to optimize their resources and time.

That is why MONA LMS was created with full features covering up to 99% of education operations. MONA LMS also integrates an online training system for a limitless learning experience. Start your “digital education” journey today by changing the management system for your education model. Contact HOTLINE 1900 636 648 for detailed advice!

E-learning website design

If you cannot find an online teaching platform you like, or you plan to develop your own web platform to start a business in education and online training, then professional website design to run an e-learning business is the most practical and promising solution.

Keep in mind that to teach online effectively you need to keep renewing your teaching methods. But if you are stuck in a loop of managing students, grading, and scheduling classes and exams, do you still have the time to think about teaching method innovation whether to do it or not?

MONA believes that before changing your method, you should optimize the old one and make it better! But the key is how. How do you streamline such demanding academic administration? ⇒ The answer: “MONA Elearning: a website and system for selling online courses” built by MONA Media.

So what does MONA Elearning offer?

►Features that solve “ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION PROBLEMS”:

• Exam scheduling and exam registration
• CRM integration
• Essay assignments
• AI-powered automatic grading integration
• Automatic generation of question banks and multiple-choice questions,….
• Management of students, revenue, attendance, instructor payroll,…

►“EXCLUSIVE” features: 

• Auto Training AI system helps optimize your ad creatives effectively and saves you over 60% compared with running ads on your own without any measurement, tracking or optimization tools. 
• Affiliate Marketing feature, affiliate commission and discount management for better operation of your e-learning website
• The video download protection, screen-capture blocking for videos keeps your courses from being downloaded or pirated,…
• A fully automatic Email Marketing/ Email Remarketing fully automated. Create and send marketing emails automatically about promotions, new updates, reminders to watch videos,…
• Student classification system using data and an assessment of student interest based on how often they watch videos, how many videos they have watched,… The system can even identify which students are high-potential so you can focus your care on that group more effectively. 
• Promotion and Flash Sale setup, so you just set it up in advance and campaigns run automatically, quickly and effectively.

MONA Elearning has been creating online teaching website design for more than 1,000+ education organizations and many leading experts who have earned enviable revenue of up to SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLION, even BILLIONS of VND within just a few months of deployment.

If you also want to take advantage of the benefits of online learning under the “AUTOMATED, HIGH-EARNING, SUSTAINABLE”model, or simply need a system that solves academic administration problems optimally,…. MONA Elearning is the best fit for you!

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Run classes effectively

To ensure the quality of online teaching, make sure every lesson is run effectively.

• Content: stay on topic, use the simplest and clearest words, add illustrative examples, and summarize the main points after each section,…
• Format: make the presentation visual, easy to follow and engaging for students, and strengthen the content with images
• Interaction: answer students' questions; if you cannot answer everything, pick the few most popular topics and put together an FAQ to send to students.

Track learners' progress

Depending on your learning model and your own online teaching experience, you can track learners' progress in the following ways:

• Course assignments
• Quizzes on the online learning system.
• Learners' reviews and feedback on the course,…

10 effective online teaching platforms today

Online teaching has become very popular, along with a growing variety of online teaching platforms. Below, MONA rounds up the top 10 e-learning platforms rated highest and best in quality today:

Khánh Hùng Academy

Khánh Hùng Academy is an e-learning website. The course gives learners 400+ lecture videos on how to sell courses automatically, teach online effectively, build a marketing plan, handle after-sales and more. Every argument and theory for closing sales quickly is backed by real case studies and data.

In addition, the strongest selling point of this online learning website is that it helps participants sell their own business course. The course also shows that e-learning is “a source of mainstream income”and an attractive platform for online teaching and training today.

Specifically, the standout strengths of Khánh Hùng Academy are:

• FREE with more than 30 quality lecture videos.
• Free mentor sessions and free setup with dedicated, detailed guidance.
• Highly professional, practical course content.
• A deep understanding of e-learning and running a business on online platforms.
• A solid business mindset from zero, even without fame or followers.

≫ Visit here: https://khanhhung.academy/

Udemy online teaching platform

Udemy is one of the online learning website reputable platform offering many courses on skill development, business, accounting and finance, IT, marketing,…. Udemy has some free courses, but most are paid. Learners receive a certificate when they finish a course.

In detail, the standout strengths of the Udemy online teaching platform are:

• A wide variety of courses at affordable prices.
• Suitable for both individual learners and businesses.
• Vietnamese subtitles for users in Vietnam.

≫ Visit here: udemy.com

Coursera

Coursera is a website for online learning that partners with many leading universities and organizations around the world to offer courses, professional certificates and degrees. Coursera's way of teaching online is indirect learning through pre-recorded videos. Depending on the course, learners may or may not need to pay; most courses on Coursera are paid. In a course, learners submit assignments, get graded and take part in activities to receive a certificate when they finish.

The highlights of the Coursera online teaching app are:

• Multilingual learning support, though mainly in English.
• A nicely designed, user-friendly interface.
• Diverse, high-quality knowledge and courses.

≫ Visit here: coursera.org

Truonghoc247

Truonghoc247 is a popular online education platform in Vietnam, offering courses from primary to high school. It focuses on delivering content that follows the official curriculum of the Ministry of Education and Training (Bộ Giáo dục và Đào tạo), helping students review and strengthen their knowledge.

The standout features of the Truonghoc247 online teaching and learning platform are:

• Lessons can be customized for each student.
• Video lectures, multiple-choice exercises and mock exams.
• An easy-to-use interface that needs no training.

≫ Visit here: truonghoc247.vn

Open Culture

Open Culture includes a rich treasury of open educational resources across many fields, from social skills to in-depth academic knowledge.

The platform offers a range of learning resources, including 1,300 online courses, over 1,000 MOOCs, 1,150 films, 700 audiobooks, 800 eBooks, 200 textbooks and hundreds of E-learning lectures. With this variety, Open Culture lets learners freely choose courses based on their interests and abilities, building knowledge and skills effectively.

Open Culture also offers advantages such as:

• All courses are free
• An easy-to-use interface that makes searching and learning convenient.

≫ Visit here: openculture.com

edX online teaching platform

edX also known as MOOCs, is an online education platform founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). edX offers courses from many of the world's leading universities and organizations, with the goal of expanding access to high-quality education for everyone, everywhere. Courses on edX can usually lead to a certificate or credits.

The standout features of the edX e-learning platform are:

• A wide range of courses for learners to choose from.
• Highly specialized courses.
• Many convenient features that are easy to use.

≫ Visit here: edx.org

FutureLearn

FutureLearn offers a range of online courses from universities and professional organizations worldwide. FutureLearn stands out for its community-based approach to learning, which encourages interaction and discussion among learners to enrich the educational experience.

The advantages of FutureLearn are:

• A variety of high-quality short courses.
• Flexible, unlimited learning.

≫ Visit here: futurelearn.com

Lynda (LinkedIn Learning)

Lynda, now LinkedIn Learning, is one of the online teaching platforms that specializes in technology, creative and business skills. It stands out for its huge course catalog and regularly updated tutorial videos, and the quality of its online courses is consistently highly rated worldwide.

The standout features of the Lynda online teaching platform are:

• No limit on which courses you choose.
• Support for practicing alongside theory.
• Lecture videos can be downloaded and watched without an internet connection.

≫ Visit here: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/

OpenLearn

OpenLearn is an e-learning platform from the UK's Open University, offering thousands of free courses in many fields. OpenLearn emphasizes open education, letting people build knowledge and skills without a big financial investment.

The strengths of the OpenLearn online teaching platform are:

• All courses are free.
• Many useful features with simple operation.

≫ Visit here: openlearning.com

Tuts+

Tuts+ is an education platform specializing in creative skills courses such as graphic design, web programming and music production. It currently hosts more than 22,000 tutorial clips and 870 video courses. Courses on Tuts+ are updated every day to stay fresh and interesting, so learners stay inspired and never get bored.

The pluses of the Tuts+ e-learning platform are:

• Courses with diverse content across many fields.
• New courses are added regularly

≫ Visit here: tutsplus.com

In short, there is no denying the importance of online teaching in improving access to knowledge and saving time and money. MONA Media hopes the content above has helped you pick up the Teaching online is not just uploading lectures to the internet. To make sure students understand easily, absorb the material and stay focused throughout, teachers need suitable online teaching experience. Here is an and choose a suitable teaching platform!