Online courses need to be user-friendly (organization, repetition of format) but also intriguing and interesting enough to keep student focus.
Online courses need to be user-friendly (organization, repetition of format) but also intriguing and interesting to keep student focus.
You must transform your content in order for it to work in the online classroom environment. It is important to use techniques to increase student engagement in the online learning environment, such as welcome letters, engaging in online discussions, and providing synchronous engagement.
Consistency is vital, but the ability to assess that something is not working and needs to be adapted is equally vital.
The important take away from this module is that online classes are not just posting your regular curriculum. Curriculum must be analyzed and put together in a format that focuses on important content and allows students to interact with it in a user friendly way.
Transferring from F2F to online needs to be done in a clear and consistent manner. Instructors need to understand the barriers students may encounter and should be aware of strategies to ensure studen success. Having a welcome messag/greating can reduce students feelings of isolation in an online environment. I will ensure to frontload content weekly and use some of the strat learned to help my students.
get students engaged and make sure course is organized for ease to students
Consistency and labeling, as well as using the correct teaching methods is imperative for successful online learning. I plan to evaluate student feedback to "clean up" my existing online courses.
The four O's of course design Origin, Organization, Orchestration, and Outcomes Assessment will guide my course development.
Moving to online learning is not simply about transferring content - it is about transforming content. Should ask yourself the following questions:
- What do I want the student to learn?
- What is the best way to present the content?
- How can I use the strengths of the online medium, while minimizing the negatives?
- How can I create interaction - student/content, student/student, student/instructor?
- How will I assess the success of the learning?
- What process will I use to evaluate the effectiveness of the presentation and the learning, so future courses can be improved?
I learned the difference in synchronous and Asycronous in this module . Teaching with all students in one area and on the other hand teaching at times that the student has themselves.
You can't simply take the content from a face to face course and dump it in an online course. You need to consider your audience, what you want to accomplish in the class, how you are going to accomplish it, and how to assess that your students have mastered the content.
important in online learning is to keep consistant with your methods so students become adapted to what to expect but be diverse in techniques to keep students engaged
It's great to be able to fully understand everything that actually goes into creating an online course. Instructors goals and duties, as well as whats expected of the students
Relevence! Students want a connection and a reason for engaging.
Turning a F2F class into an online course requires organization and using multiple teaching strategies Proper course layout and organization helps the instructor and the students, this also makes the class flow easier. A welcome letter and a wrap-up letter helps the students sense the instructors presenc virtually.
The organization and layout of your program are important factors towards success of an online program.
Engaging with students and keeping information organized is important for successful learning.
This module is really helpful, but one of the sentences I thought was most helpful was, that ti may be easier to create a new course, rather than convert a F2F course. I've been apporaching this process of converstion in the wrong way. As they go on to say, we're supposed to end with a class and not an online book. I've got a lot to think about and I'm also using someone else's organizational layout. I knew that wasn't working. I'm using a lot of these tools for the first time, so I have made a lot of discoveries of things that don't work and that I can change going forward.
As explained F to F is really not that different for on line if the instructor can apply their own personalities
