Best Practices in Project-Based Learning: Online Instructional Technology Courses and Emergency Remote Teaching.

A retrospective case study design was used to analyze online instructional technology courses at two US universities. A project-based learning design model was used for both complete online delivery and emergency remote teaching formats. Although deep areas of scholarship exist for online learning, project-based learning, and digital media literacies, research in the area of project-based learning designs to support technical learning in online courses is nascent. A review of these areas of literature is presented, and results from this case analysis are presented as recommendations to faculty who wish to design project-based learning for online technical courses, or for those who are planning emergency remote teaching conversions for similar technical courses.