I learned about the importance of students' reading and writing skills in an online course. This concerns me because so many students have issues with their reading and writing-- making it imperative that I have supports in place for these students.
Ideal participation and engagement in online course settings require all-encompasing communication, familiarity and adaptation to student personalities, and an active classroom. I believe that participation is a major key in being successfull in teaching online courses. With this information I would create checklists within the framework of the course to make sure that I am completing and considering all of these different areas of importance.
Preparing students how to learn online, giving them the resources to complete the course sucessfully. Being mindful if students are having difficulties, become unmotivated or nonexistant from the platform. This is where clear and consise communication is imparative for not only student sucess but that of the instructor.
I agreed with the course when it stated that effective communication should be clear, professional, and appropriate. People want to be spoken to respectfully and know that their opinion is valued. With this in mind, I will be sure to model the kind of language I want to be shared in my courses by being sure to speak/write at all times in a clear, professional, appropriate manner. When appropriate speech/behavior is consistently modeled, it will be returned.
Being aware of how we come across to students is very important; professionally, consise, and in a timely manner.
I love jigsaw style activities and they can be designed for any class setting and multi-level classroom need. Having each student assigned a particular part and coming together to see just how important and powerful working as a team can be is exciting to watch.
Based on the objectives of this module it is necessary to know and implement the importance of good online citizenship, reading and writing skills, participation, engagement, Community of Practice and effective communication. Following all the recommendations in this module, will let us to have an optimum online learning environment that promotes the success of our students.
Being a great online citizen is good for all the students.
Communication has to be effective in order to yield desirable outcomes.
Clear concise communication is key to success.
I've struggled with the use of discussion boards in the past because they didn't seem to apply to the content taught. But, now I have an idea to use them for developing student study/success skills. I also see the value of a wiki for some of the discussion.
I learned in this course that a students participating in assignments, discussion and communicating via emails or text is important for the student.
I learned that having a sense of community and appropriate communication is imperative to ensure that there is no miscommunication and isolation within the online learning environment.
Ensure to address any issues that the students may have with a solution and by using thier own words as a summary to ensure that they understand the solution to thier problem
It is important to vary your communication to your participants. You must set the tone and expectations for how communication should occur. The expectation should occur at the beginning. You should be able to incorporate varied styles of teaching to adjust to your student's styles of learning.
Non technical skills are just as important as technical skills in online learning and we must take those into consideration as well.
I plan to incoroporate supports to assist my students in non technical supports such as reading and being effective communicators.
I liked seeing that 80% of our waking hours we are communicating. This brings home the importance of teaching it in an on line program
Students have a diffculty focusing because of environment and its up to the online instructor to create a safe place online for teaching can be received and learning can take place. However, this is a 2 fold agreement where the study needs to be a good online citizen, do not plagiarize and respect guidelines for proper online communcation.
I have learned that online students need to develop good citizenship, reading and writing skills, participatate and be actively engaged in the online activitie and be able to effectively communicate. I will ensure that I include information on acadamic integrity policy in the online sylllabus.
Each instructor needs to have clear expectations for communication. Using short cuts and slang may sometimes be appropriate but depending upon the class and format, it is reasonable to ask for communication to be done in a more formal manner.
