What Online Teaching Degree actually means
Ask five people what Online Teaching Degree means and you will get five answers that overlap without agreeing. The disagreement is not pedantry: it changes what you actually do next.
Three parts are doing the work here: Online sets the approach, Degree names what it is aimed at, and the teaching in between is where most of the disagreement actually lives.
The reason classroom teachers, instructional coaches and school leaders end up here is rarely academic curiosity. It is usually a specific stuck point, and Online Teaching Degree turns out to be the name for it.
The questions worth asking
Start where the understanding actually is rather than where the syllabus says it should be: Which students in the room can already explain this, and how do you know?
Then test the reasoning rather than the recall: What question would tell you the difference between recall and understanding? Two questions, asked in that order, do more here than a page of explanation.
Where people go wrong
Where this usually goes wrong is that hands raised in a classroom are evidence the class has understood — a mistake that is invisible until something unfamiliar turns up.
Putting it into practice
In practice this means planning three questions of increasing depth before the lesson, and using the third only when the first two land.
You will know it is working when more students volunteer reasoning rather than answers.
Where to go next
If this is the thing you are stuck on, start with the classroom question banks in the resources section, then a demo built around one of your own lessons.