Flower Darby is a Senior Instructional Designer and adjunct faculty member at Northern Arizona University, where she has taught for over 22 years. She is also adjunct faculty for Estrella Mountain Community College. Darby teaches online, blended and face-to-face courses in a range of subjects: English literature, composition, technology, education, leadership, dance and fitness. She regularly writes and presents nationally and internationally on excellence in teaching and learning design. She is zealous in her promotion of student success through effective classroom practice, whether the classroom is physical or online. Flower Darby is also the author the book Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes. The prospect of applying cognitive theory to your online teaching practice may seem daunting at first. After all, theory can seem very distant from what is happening in your day-to-day online class. This book aims to shorten that distance, to outline practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. Flower Darby presents minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains. Based on the successful approach of Small Teaching, this book includes brief learning activities, small course design modifications, and simple changes to your communication with online students that have an outsized impact on student learning.