Five Challenges for Online Teaching This short video reviews five common challenges, which those teaching online and at a distance have to deal with, including (a) student engagement – how do we engage and involve learners in their learning?; (b) differentiated instruction – how do we personalize learning for learners working at different speeds and with different learning style in an online course?; (c) volume – how do we manage the volume of activity which engaged online learning can produce?; (d) quality of feedback – how do we give students as a group and each individual student timely and valuable feedback?; and (e) assessing participation – how do we assess participation in an online course?