This was an excellect course.  I currently Have a weekly Discussion Board with a new topic.  I am interactive on the Board.  I take opportunities to involved students in all Live lectures by drawing on their experiences and everyday life.  I have recently been included some example problems into the lecture portion of the course that I normally would use in Office Hours.  This is a little difficult when I am lecturing to myself - no students are in the classroom - and many may not watch the recording.

it is important to give the student the same experience online as well in a classroom 

Post local events and fun things to do on Announcements on the LMS.

With this new vision of the development of online courses, I will be increasing activities focused on student participation by 30% more, for example: Blogs and concept maps.

At my Job as an Electrical Instructor sometimes I have to revise labs to ensure student interaction and understings.  So my quetion would be is what would you do in a lab situation without that matching Component  ?

Regards to all

John Bonaccorso

Very good and informative course

Course revission is very imoortant and a key part in a course management.

During this course I learned different ways to motivate the students in an online course.

Formative ans summative assesment are very important and crucial for the effectiveness of the learning process.

Online discussions are the heart of the course.  I try to make them interesting, relevant to current events, and thought provoking.  I try to encourage (Good post or Great thought at the beginning) and I open the question for all students by ending my response with (Thoughts anyone?) 

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.