Make yourself accessable. Be empathetic.  Remember when you were a student and the challenges you faced.  Remember your best teachers and their best techinques. 

I always worry that I am not intereacting with each of my students enough for them to feel supported. So, I'm going to work on some type of rubric to help me chronicle my time with each student.  Don't know what it'll look like yet.

Empower Students and acculturate with mutual inclisivity to complete the courses

My preference is classroom because I enjoy person-to-person interaction. However distant learning is the way of the present and future. It enable persons to get needed training 

for whatever their career goals are. I have learned a great deal of information from this course. I will reinforce it and utilize in my educational path.

I disagree. Students may be paying tuition, but they should not be seen as consumers. This is the business model (vocabulary) imposed on the academy.

When I teach I do not see myself as a salesman of knowledge, and the institution I work in is not a corporation or a business. 

Students are consumers of information, but not market consumers. To commodify knowledge is to turn the classroom into a shopping center...which it isn't.

"Just as in construction, poorly built learning scaffolds can sabotage future learning." Sabotage is the wrong word here. You mean undermine the foundation to learning.

The Scaffold metaphor works, but it is still insufficient. This is otherwise known as foundationalism. However, it is hardly comprehenesive of the full measure of the way students can learn.

What about the role of imagination and interdisciplinary learning? Where does this fit into the metaphor?

See coherentism. Some students learn discursively...like contemplating stars in the sky or a "web of possibilities." Not all learning needs to be predictable or lock-step. This is far too… >>>

"Remember, what you won't tolerate in your F2F course, you should never tolerate in your online course."
 

This should read "wouldn't" not won't. Also, students using an Alias? What's preventing friends of students from completing assignments?

sometimes as an instructor, you will need to explain assignments over and over, to make sure all students understand the assignment

never let the students feel they are getting less education when not in person

It is always helpful at the beginning of the week to send a quick outline of what is expected and due. Not to mention a positive note of hello.

Some students still feel that the instructors are going to still teach all the material, when all of the teaching is done on line. It takes a while for them to adapt.

Creating small projects that 2 or 3 students can do helps them meet and work with each other.  This often breaks the ice and they start interacting with the rest of the students in the course via discussion boads and other applications.

Self- and peer-assessment is a great practice. It is designed to allow students to get involved in the learning and assessment process. What is a good way to assign students in groups so that they can carry out peer-assessment positively? 

It is effective to send individual emails to remind students of what they forgot and how they can do better.  It will improve student engagement. ......

It is important to keep students engaged during online classes. Make sure everything has a timely manner to be turned in. 

The LMS can be a scary place. Some LMS platforms like Canvas try to be as intuitive as possible. Others might meet all the technical requirements but they are so 1999. As the teacher, there are few suggestions that might work if you are teaching a first year, lower division class.  

1. If your school switched LMS, spend time getting acclimated to the platform THEN teach the students. Speaking from personal experience, if everyone is in the same boat, do not show frustration with the new system or compare it negatively to the old system. There is a reason for… >>>

Quizzes were informative. The section on this module is critical to learning the online teaching strategies

Frequent, low-stakes or no-stakes testing in the form of games and interatives are a great learning tool.

I really like this first module, even that I know some of the tools , the combinations of them is very helpful.

Best course so far