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I have been in the IT field for many years before I transitioned to teaching in both Secondary Education and Higher Education. Courses taught include Computer Science, Math, and Healthcare-IT. I am here to learn more about effective online teaching strategies.
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I must agree with your comments about the challenge of implementing meaningful group projects in online courses. I teach asynchronous courses. Therefore, all students access their course at different days and at different times. Moreover, students do not live in the same time zone. Furthermore, they are on a variety of work schedules, shifts, and family obligations.
However, during our weekly live instructor labs, everyone has the opportunity to participate in our synchronous discussions. They ask questions, share comments, and learn from each other’s.
I think meaningful group projects would only work in synchronous and traditional courses.
Any new ideas?
I teach online synchronous/asynchronous courses. There are many parameters to the course such as daily discussions, weekly one-hour live interactive labs using Blackboard, Collaborate, and phone, and weekly one-hour live instructor office hours so that students can have an opportunity to ask questions or make comments about their coursework. Additional instructional strategies include step-by-step video tutorials, video intro presentations, power point presentations, study guides, and learning objectives.
Over the years, at the beginning of each course, my primary goal is to promote an energized classroom environment. It is very important to establish positive relationships with all students, the first day of class, based on mutual trust and respect. All students know that I care about their learning and success. I use many effective strategies to encourage active learning and student participation. It includes video presentations, learning objectives, video tutorials, and discussion posts.
In this information age, educators have to be creative when sharing course related information with students. Some of the techniques I use online include short PowerPoint module video presentations, discussions with curious titles, colored text, and relevant clipart, step-by-step multimedia video tutorials, and humorous announcements.
I have never taught a pharmacy calculations course. In my opinion, as an educator, I believe that active learning can be implemented in all types of courses. I have incorporated meaningful and relevant learning strategies to promote active learning in Math, Computer Science, Desktop support, and History courses. Examples of learning strategies that I have used include step-by-step video tutorials, PowerPoint videos, interactive Q&As, connecting course content to current events’ or current technologies’ discussions, transforming study guides into puzzles, using case method teaching, and having students do in-class role-plays.
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About me
I have been in the IT field for many years before I transitioned to teaching in both Secondary Education and Higher Education. Courses taught include Computer Science, Math, and Healthcare-IT. I am here to learn more about effective online teaching strategies.
Interests
Skills
Activity
I must agree with your comments about the challenge of implementing meaningful group projects in online courses. I teach asynchronous courses. Therefore, all students access their course at different days and at different times. Moreover, students do not live in the same time zone. Furthermore, they are on a variety of work schedules, shifts, and family obligations.
However, during our weekly live instructor labs, everyone has the opportunity to participate in our synchronous discussions. They ask questions, share comments, and learn from each other’s.
I think meaningful group projects would only work in synchronous and traditional courses.
Any new ideas?
I teach online synchronous/asynchronous courses. There are many parameters to the course such as daily discussions, weekly one-hour live interactive labs using Blackboard, Collaborate, and phone, and weekly one-hour live instructor office hours so that students can have an opportunity to ask questions or make comments about their coursework. Additional instructional strategies include step-by-step video tutorials, video intro presentations, power point presentations, study guides, and learning objectives.
Over the years, at the beginning of each course, my primary goal is to promote an energized classroom environment. It is very important to establish positive relationships with all students, the first day of class, based on mutual trust and respect. All students know that I care about their learning and success. I use many effective strategies to encourage active learning and student participation. It includes video presentations, learning objectives, video tutorials, and discussion posts.
In this information age, educators have to be creative when sharing course related information with students. Some of the techniques I use online include short PowerPoint module video presentations, discussions with curious titles, colored text, and relevant clipart, step-by-step multimedia video tutorials, and humorous announcements.
I have never taught a pharmacy calculations course. In my opinion, as an educator, I believe that active learning can be implemented in all types of courses. I have incorporated meaningful and relevant learning strategies to promote active learning in Math, Computer Science, Desktop support, and History courses. Examples of learning strategies that I have used include step-by-step video tutorials, PowerPoint videos, interactive Q&As, connecting course content to current events’ or current technologies’ discussions, transforming study guides into puzzles, using case method teaching, and having students do in-class role-plays.
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