I also understand that teachers need to follow school guidelines

I understand that disrupters can be actively disruptive even in e learning and asynchronous environments

I was surprised to learn critical content should be covered asynchronously. As I think about it, this makes sense. But it was not my first way of thinking about it which tells me I am very biased toward synchronous conversation. 

It's very important to make a personal connection with students and to aim to build a real and mutually respectful learning relationship. 

It's important to make a personal connection with the students

I've learned that it is important to be more than just the SME. As an Adjunct, I need to become expert in the teaching apparatuses and processes.

The structure that ISD imposes on teaching is enormously helpful and provides a great deal of opportunities for creativity to be woven into course and lesson planning design. 

I am aware of all the bits that make up the course components and so will be more able to create them for courses I help design

In seeing the sections about synchronous chat and asynchronous chat, I'm struck by how video conferencing - especially in these days of COVID19 - is taken for granted as if it's always been a part of online learning. It's interesting how the content in this course, so far, speaks to when online learning was more about trying as best as possible to offer a nearly as good simulation of brick and mortar learning vs. how today, it can achieve outcomes far beyond the limits of in person, conventional classes.