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Creating an Online Community

Due to COVID-19, creating an online community among the students in my courses has become crucial. This course, Online Language: Communicating with Students, has provided me with the guidelines I need to establish and maintain successful communication among my students. Three types of communication were pointed out which were instructor to student, student to instructor, and student to student. Establishing clear guiedlines for communicating with one another in the course should be outlined and made readily available in the syllabus. The instructor should be consisten in feedback and watch the tone of all communication with the student. Know when to… >>>

Communication In Remote Learning

 

 

     There is a vast difference in communicating in a traditional classroom versus a remote classroom. There is so much to consider as it relates to a nonverbal environment.

Very Informative

The information was very helpful for me as an online instructor in traing, I appreciate the tips. Every module gave me insight as to how I can be successful and assist students in being successful.

Useful tool for engaging online learners

While taking courses for my degree, I took primairly online courses and one of the amazing tools the instrutor used for our research and discussion board was Google Earth. The instructor gave us discussion questions and assignments based on the information given and we had to review and look up thingd all around the world. Then we would have to discuss our findings and give feed back. Really enjoyed it!

Action Plan

Still working on the action plan.  It will definitely involve motivational items and social engagement.

I have a LOT more to do than I expected!

It's rare that I get as much out of a course as I'm getting out of this one. I already have a ton of ideas about better ways to connect with and motivate my learners. 

Some of the take-aways I intend to take action on are:

  • Wikis for learners to share findings/resources
  • Facebook group or maybe a Slack channel so that DQs can feel more conversational
  • Improving the specificity, meaningfulness, and timeliness of feedback
  • Delivering content in even more ways than I currently do so every learner's style is addressed
  • Remind.com is a great idea
  • More gamification opportunities for learners
  • >>>

Effective Online Learning

I plan to stratagize an effective online learning program for my students so that they have the ability to collaborate and communicate in a manner that allows them to gain meaningful knowledge about their academic interests.  Providing them a well designed rubric in order to fullfil all of their academic requirements is essential.  I've realized more through this online training that it is imparative to remain transpartent with students so that they have a clear understanding of expectations, rules and consequesences.  The online environment can be a very valuable working tool for those that want to use it but can… >>>

Controversial questions

I prefer to open discussions on cotroversial topics at the beginning of the course & ask the students to think out of the box. In this way I know how each & every one thinks.

Online Communication: Engaging and Retaining Online Learners

Retaining online students is a campus effort. It starts from the admission advisors to IT department assisting a student with a technical issue.

As a faculty, my role is to provide an environment where the student is free to learn and ask questions without being intimidated. It is important to provide significance interactions between students, faculty, and staff.  I have to be part of the solution when it comes to retention. I have to help facilitate a campus that provides interpersonal, academic, and professional interactions.

Engaging Online learners

This course helped me self reflect.

I noticed that some of my motivational engagement could have been ineffective. For example, I am guilty of content chunking.

Sometimes I pout too much information in a slide, announcement, or comment. I have all this information to share but I have to break it down to pieces.

I will take the large bit of content and breaking it out into smaller, easily discernible portions. That will definitely help the students. I also noticed that my instructor-to-student engagement is well. I do feel that my social engagement in the course with the student is quite… >>>

Engaging Online learners

This course helped me self reflect.

I noticed that some of my motivational engagement could have been ineffective. For example, I am guilty of content chunking.

Sometimes I pout too much information in a slide, announcement, or comment. I have all this information to share but I have to break it down to pieces.

I will take the large bit of content and breaking it out into smaller, easily discernible portions. That will definitely help the students. I also noticed that my instructor-to-student engagement is well. I do feel that my social engagement in the course with the student is quite… >>>

Engaging learners

It is very important for instructors to engage our learners. After completing this course, I realized that an online instructor must understand not only how learners learn but also how to leverage technology to help them take in and retain information. Students are more motivated and engaged when they know they have some say in what they’re doing. I realized that they may lean toward diving deeper into specific topics or may prefer one delivery method over another. Communication is very important to engage learners. Scheduling and sending automated emails to students who don't log in for a certain number of… >>>

Students with Disabilities: Legal Obligations and Opportunities

Hello Everyone,

 

I believe this course is vital to every faculty's training. It is very important for us to understand the legality when it comes to teaching or providing accommodation to our students with disabilities. We have to put all of our personal ideas aside. We can never assume that we know the limitations of a person because everybody does things differently. Most importantly, these refresher courses help us to practice in a way that will help avoid lawsuits for both us and the university. We must help foster equal access to opportunity. Like the training stated, 'the… >>>

engaging

One thing that must be done in the adult online environment is to engage with the students. This can be via blog, video, live lecture. It is important to know that the Instructor is available and able to guide students.

Sharing Resources - Additional Information

I try to provide efficient/effective and constructive feedback - reminders to review, redo and complet assignments.   I also provide written documents and additional videos to help with the assignments.  However, I can tell by some students work that they don't review the comments or additional resources.  Any suggestions on ways to get student to view important content?  I send emails, announcement and attachments to gradebook comments.

Best Practices

Use strong outlines to direct behavior

 

Online Learning

This course has been good tor ead to give me ideas for the future with my online courses.

Students who do not know they have a disability

Doing online classes can show a student with an ADA disability.  How can an instructor help an student who does not know they have an issue?

EL108

Very informative

El108

Good