Contemporary students are looking for alternative learning deliveries that meet their individual needs when selecting a program or school. Developers of learning environments need to be able design learning environments that meet a wide variety of student preferences and needs. This group is for educators who aspire to discuss and master the competencies necessary for exemplary performance and top customer service in a dynamic, rapidly changing education landscape. Group members share best practices, ideas, thoughts, reflections, and resources to help colleagues across the globe improve performance.
MERLOT is one example of an RLO index that provides free and open online teaching and learning resources for instructors. I did enjoy the health physics link and will try to apply it to me class instruction.
Most of my training in a Laboratory class has been involving (PBL) Problem Based Learning , and i think it helps the students to become more critical thinkers at problem solving.
As an instructor of a Laboratory course , I find it difficult to provide the same training exercise as there are to many variables that change the course for the students.
.VARK is a tool to allow people to self-assess their learning preferences. It categorizes learning preferences as Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, Kinesthetic, and Multi-modal.
Performing online objectives allows the students to focus on a said task at their own speed, The downfall to doing that is that they do not get the input from other students.
Providing online courses can allow feedback from the instructor quickly and efficiently
I learned the benefits of both synchronous and asynchronous discussions. The young adults taking courses now seem to prefer asynchronous courses to perform tasks at their own speed and discretion
On line learning has been more prelevant over the years and I did not know that students used to perform studies via the mail system with an instructor
We focused on student engagement and learning outcomes of the students.
There is more than just grading. Focus on what they actually learned and not what they did not learn.
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