I find formative course evaluations provide the instructor with opportunities to adjust the course to meet students’ needs. Student needs have changed for me every semester and I like to discover this at the start of the semester by exploring learning styles. Once piece of advice that I found valuable, and I plan to incorporate, is online instructors should ask students approximately every 3-5 weeks what they would like the instructor to stop doing, start doing, and continue to do to help me run the course more efficiently.
Course history can be helpful in planning and updating future courses.
The importance of professional development, especially for online instructors.
It's nice to see there's an acronym for what I've been doing instinctively: ADDIE. And now I'm off to spend more time with ADDIE...
Courses should be evaluated on a timeline to ensure proper updating.
The Stop, Start, Continue technique. Give value to the opinion of the students
The main thing to consider when using dynamic components within online courses, to use those that only support the leaning environment and not just provide information if they need it.
Keep up with the updated content for your online course so your students are getting all the new and important information.
Course revisions should be ongoing and deliberate
Reply to Holly Voss's post: I think I update my course every year! I am always trying to incorporate new technology and techniques so that my student learn and RETAIN the information in my courses.
Professional development leads to a better outcome for learners and growth for best practices as an instructor
Professional development should be viewed as an opportunity to enhance online instructors’ strengths and improve upon their weaknesses. Doing so can save time later and help instructors manage their workload. Professional development should be completed to strengthen the instructor’s teaching practice throughout his/her career. It is important to set aside time for professional development as you, the instructor, and the students all realize the benefits.
Just like doing these modules is professional development to help us grow as educators and to help us teach in different environments in order to best serve our students.
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Always be ready for change. updates happen.
I learned about
ADDIE- Analysis, Desin, Development, Implementation and Evaluation.
In this module I learned about more workload strategies. Formative and summative evaluation as well as course evaluation, and creating a repository bank for materials to be rehuse as needed.
The module spoke to the importance of being flexible and willing to update and modify the course.
I have learned that when students give feedback and make recommendations that we are unable to fulfill that we need to explain why. I also learned that when revisions are made to our courses that it is important to keep a record of both the changes and the old courses in case the changes that were made do not work and we need to revert to the old curriculum.
I learned that the technology is a very important dynamic element of the online course.
Key time management strategies and applications are important for successful on line instructors.
