About me
Course Director at Joint Special Operations University, MacDill AFB FL
Douglas JordanCHEP
Location: macdill afb, fl
Interests
security cooperation, international communication
Skills
media, cross-cultural communication
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It was interesting to see that the materials that are seen are all required. Not so much that they are doing it for the value of the information but to be in compliance. It also allows for accurate comparison.
I once took a graduate course where we were each given a technology to use as part of the experience and it caused barriers to the learning.
Some of the technologies did not work with the schools LMS very effectively. The professor allowed us to "drop" this portion of the lessons due to the trouble that it was causing. It was a case of becoming enamoured with a shiny new tool.
Doug
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I think that cheating in an online environment is a real possibility. I was a TA for a professor in an online course and you can see that there are students working "collaboratively" on projects and exams by how they log in to take them. The ability to watch students in the online world is very powerful. It is an ethics thing.
I also one time had a professor accuse me of cheating by my score on turn it in. He did not understand the technology so it cuts both ways.
Doug
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Often you have to key on their attempts to get into the confersation. If they start to mouth a comment, make it under their breath or start to raise a hand, they want in. Often we do not provide the space for the quiet students to "get a word in edgewise".
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In my Department at the University of South Florida, we talk about how teaching is performance. You prepare, learn your lines and then perform teacher. Afterwards you go home and perform spouse, parent, child, etc.
We are many people. I think that being able to share knowledge with others is a great gift. The challenge is people who have taken up teaching because they are smart but are not good at communicating or performing.
They make for some dull courses.
Thoughts...... Doug
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You bring up some great points about being aware as a teacher. It is about you, but also about the others in the room. Sometimes a personal story gets things going but sometimes it is just too much.
Being able to "read the room" is a valuable skill.