We are the Program for Online Teaching, a group of volunteer faculty helping other faculty teach better online.

Our focus is on pedagogy as the guiding force for using technologies for teaching.

Many of us are from MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California. MiraCostans may access the Teaching/Technology Innovations Center for technical help, resources, news and more.

The POT Network

  • POT Diigo group
    (see tutorial on how to save bookmarks)
  • POT Facebook group
  • POT Vimeo Channel (workshops)
  • POT YouTube Channel
  • Twittter (please use hashtag #potcomm)

POT Reading List

Robin Good, Literacy practice, pedagogy, and the ‘digital university’ (2014)

Lyn/Dwyer/Guo, Exploring Online Teaching: A Three-Year Composite Journal of Concerns and Strategies from Online Instructors, Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Volume XII, Number III, Fall 2012

Jonathan Mott, Envisioning the post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network (2010)

Bob Barrett, Creating Structure out of Chaos […]

POT workshop: Engaging online discussion and student interaction

POT workshop: Establishing online presence (August 2014)

POT News Flash for May 2015

As you may already know, the Program for Online Teaching is spending this semester blogging at Pedagogy First, POT’s new blog. We have lined up guest authors to post their experiences and recommendations, and during April have focused especially on cool tools, with Rachèle DeMéo, Jordan Molina, Silvia Vazquez Paramio and Bethanie Perry sharing how […]

Program for Online Teaching News Flash: April 2015

Hello faculty, This semester, the Program for Online Teaching website​ has become the Pedagogy First! blog. We are publishing some of the best in online teaching advice, examples, and analysis.

We have invited faculty and innovators from MiraCosta and other colleges to write blog posts on such topics as preparing and gathering materials, cool tools, […]