I just completed this course. I am in the planning stages of an online program, so this class gets me off to a great start.

This information was very helpful and I look forward to using it as we start our online classes.

This course assisted in not only the introduction of various technological interfaces that can be implemented and employed within the classroom arena, but also the reasons and methods that they are used for. 

I would not have been aware of some of these items and I really enjoyed the Synchronous assessment information because I know that being an online teacher, I need to be better aware of these measures. 

With today technologies, we instructors must be open to creative adaptive lesson plans. We need to  incorporate visual, audio and written curriculum to reach the different type of students in our classroom. The current student portal is a great way to house the support course materals that will be effective for students to use as it is easy for them to retrive it.

Hello, as an Online Instructor I use several forms of instructional materials provided to students, so that they have the opportunity to examine  and use any and all forms to suit their particular learning styles. These include a twice weekly Live Chat meeting where the weekly assignments are discussed and the course content as laid out in the syllabus is covered throughout the 5 or 10 week course. Grading Rubrics are also posted for each week's assignments. In addition to this, I provide examples for student downloads of these weekly assignments. I follow up daily on the Discussion Boards to… >>>

My experience is that good teachers care about students. Good teachers know the content and know how to explain it. Good teachers expect and demand high levels of performance of students. Good teachers are great performers and storytellers that rivet their students' attention.

All of this is good but great teachers engineer learning experiences that maneuver the students into the driver's seat and then the teachers get out of the way. Students learn best by personally experiencing learning that is physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual.

Just completed this course. Even though I currently teach on campus, a lot of ideas here are applicable to both online and on-campus instruction. Of particular interests are the techniques for managing disruptive students, and managing procrastinators.

I find that it is important to check into the classroom often. I make a habit of posting deadlines on the forum as well as in the announcements to ensure that the students know when the work is due. I also find that offering real-time office hours can be helpful to the students to allow them the opportunity to meet with me in real-time with questions they might have.

Though learning styles differ with each student, the first method I facilitate is repetition of understanding concept or procedural structures of knowing-how-to through a lot of examples that show simple to complex level of difficulty, with step-by-step instructions, and letting the student to work out varied samples that show levels of difficulty. The first level of learning hierarchy, according to Benjamin Bloom, is knowledge which is more complex than rote learning.   

I plan on using the techniques and strategies outlined in the learning module in the actual online classroom on a consistent basis.

Hello,

It is difficult to verify their reasons or execuses for being late without the help of facial expressions, tone of voice and so forth. 

mayuresh

This is a very helpful course for those that teach online

On a daily bases I ensure that my students are clear about the flow of communication between us an there fellow students. Communication is the key to success!

This course was an eye opening experience in unsterstanding how to educate our student with more of a personlized touch, I will apply all of this helpful imformation to my daily interactions with my students.

This was an informative course. I learned about time management being beneficial to students. I never looked at it as helping the students' I only looked at it from the instructor poit of view.

As the online coordinator I see both the positive and negative issues with online learning. The students that I assit have the most issue with instructors not returning communication on time. Also they struggle with time managment. I have even had some students tell me they do not have time for the online class and that they need to work. When I ask them what they would do if the class happened to be a ground class, they tell me they would schedule work around it. I think with the push for online we need to focus on time managment… >>>

Hello everyone,

I just completed the EL 103 course and this course provides great insight to constructing and online course. I was very pleased with the content and concise material shared. The course answered areas I had questions about and confirmed the latest development in curricular design.

After this course we have implemented a distance education certificate program that utilized much of the pedgagogy covered in the course. I felt much more prepared to be at the helm of this new venture.

Much of what I have learned was knowledge that I developed during the 7 years I have been teaching in the online environment. Perhaps this information would have been most beneficial "before" I started teaching online rather than after 7-8 years of teaching online. This material merely reinforced what I have experienced.

One tip I use often is that when I get a question from student I add it to a Frequenlty Asked Question list when I expect other student to have the same question.  Then I email that list to all students.  This helps the students signifcantly since it lets them be aware of issues with the class they may have.

Darren Tennyuk

As an online instructor, I have the privilege of helper others achieve their goals and dreams.