If you are new to online teaching and course development, read this book. Practical, useful and clear, it is full from cover to cover with helpful advice and information. It explains both the rationale and practice of effective online teaching. It will help manage presence, improve engagement, support the development of a community of learners, enable effective feedback and debriefing as well as encourage innovative approaches to students with difficulties in learning the course materials. It does all this within a flexible but time-focused framework, which makes sense to those who are new to this work. It takes a pragmatic view of the work and is an easy read.