Teaching animal behavior online: A primer for the pandemic and beyond.

"2.1 Sources of support Our first (and perhaps most important) piece of advice is to seek support, as instructors who have strong support networks are often more successful (e.g., Dohaney et al., 2020). Ask colleagues—especially those with online teaching experience—to provide feedback on course structure, lectures, and assignments. Add them as a student to the online course, so they can provide global feedback (consider reciprocal altruism for this potentially labor‐intensive task). Consult with education technologists for help comparing and learning new software options or tracking down required hardware. Provide students with opportunities to give anonymous feedback about what things are working and what things the instructor might want to change, either immediately or in future versions of the course. Support specifically for behavior courses is also readily available through several online platforms including the following: Facebook Group—Behaviour and Evolution Teaching Exchange that currently hosts 314 instructors across multiple continents; Slack Workspace —Behav Evol Teaching (behavevolteaching.slack.com) currently with 114 instructors from multiple continents; Google Docs—share behavior course syllabi, tests, examinations, laboratories, assignments, and videos (https://tinyurl.com/behavteach); and where instructors, Ph.D., and postdoctoral students can sign up to give shareable short lectures on a variety of topics (https://tinyurl.com/behav‐lecture). In these informal networks, participants exchange ideas and help bolster each other as challenges arise. It was such an exchange that led to us writing this publication."