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The quality of online education versus face-to-face education in the classroom is a question that can be debated, but given that people want to take classes online, perhaps a better point of focus is on how to maximize the effectiveness of online teaching. Library Juice Academy is offering a course next month in online instruction that some faculty on this list may find useful. Here is some information about it: Online Instruction http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/015-online-instruction.php *Instructor: *John Doherty *Dates: *January 1-28, 2013 *Credits: *1.5 CEUs *Cost:* $175 This four-week online seminar will help instructors new to online learning develop content, assessments, and activities that are aligned to particular standards, expectations, or outcomes. Participants will work on developing their own unit of learning through five phases of instructional design and teaching: analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The emphasis will be on technological agnostic units, but the focus will be on delivery through Moodle. The seminar will be highly interactive, with an expectation of peer mentoring and frequent interactions. *Dr. John J. Doherty* is an instructional designer with the Northern Arizona University's e-Learning Center. From 1993 to 2007 he worked in academic libraries, with an emphasis on library instruction and critical information literacy. He has published and presented nationally and internationally in these areas, including "Design to learn, learn to design: using backward design for information literacy instruction" (co-authored with Bruce E. Fox in Communications in Information Literacy, 5.2, 2011).