Taylor Kinkade

It is important that your course remain fluid and ever-changing to always imporve. You should not base those changes solely on student feedback, but also include stakeholders in the process of creating and revising.

Meaningful feedback is just as important as the final assessment grade. It is also a good practice to have students assess their own work - with time to revise - and then have instructor score the work. This gives them a better understanding of what met expectations and what didn't.

Communication of the overall goals and formatting to students makes the online learning process run smoothly. The interactive syllabus should lay out a road map for students to discover thwere the class will take them.

Consistency is key. In order to diminish student confusion, and stream-line my own curriculum, modules should be created with similar styles and clear learning goals displayed. This will help with additional content creation as well.

Learning titles for the various types of online learners was interesting (and gave a bit of insight on which category I would fit into). One of the constant issues with online learning is the "problems" - real or not - students face, and how we can professionally deal with them.

It was interesting to learn that for introduction of big ideas, that a one-on-one conversation, or a recorded module, is the best way to do so. So often teachers try and conduct live class online, when really no student gets the attention that is needed in that format.

Because we won't be meeting our students face-to-face, a form of introductions is imperative for the overall success. Students need to know what you, as an instructor, know - and in turn, you need to have a brief bio of each student in order to identify their potential strengths and weaknesses.

I have started to piece together the aspects of my live lessons and see how they will translate to an online environment. This module taught me the importance of delivering the content first (front-loading) and then supplementing information along the way. I also learned to keep in mind that students get stressed out with technology issues and to keep that in mind.