What are your "rules" for emailing for your students?

What strategies do you use to involve students, as part of smart workload management strategy?

How do you balance work and life when teaching online?

How do you manage your time when teaching online?

What strategies do you use to reduce emails and improve communication with your students?

What role does course design have in managing workload for the instructor?

What technology support documents or information have you created to support your online students?

What information management skills have you developed as an online instructor?

What time management skills have you developed as an online instructor?

How does implementing Chickering and Gamson's seven principles for good practice in education improve your online course?

Synchronous learning takes place when two or more people are communicating in real time. Sitting in a classroom, talking on the telephone, chatting via instant messaging are examples of synchronous communication. So is sitting in a classroom a world away from where the teacher is speaking via teleconferencing. Think "live." Asynchronous learning, on the other hand, is thought to be more flexible. The teaching takes place at one time and is preserved for the learner to participate in whenever the time is most convenient for him or her. Technology such as email, ecourses, online forums, audio and video recordings make this possible. Even snail mail would be considered asynchronous. Fancy word for convenience. I prefer Synchronous learning.

Our students are entering a world in which 60% of the jobs will require technological competency--a world in which they must continue to update their occupational and technological skills in order to be successful. We must enable them to become technologically competent. We must take advantage of the capacity of technology to enhance our traditional classroom presentations and to engage our students in active learning.

One area I started here many years back was checking the DB and emails in the am and pm, and email at lunch. This made the amount of material to cover at each login minimal and easy to manage.

One area that needs to be covered move in the student training is Substantive Feedback as many post I like, good job, and simple I agree comments in many 101 courses.

What is any ability do students have within the MLS to hold real time chats with the group?

Hello everyone. I hope you are all doing well. I have really enjoyed this course! I wanted to discuss the topic of student conflicts. I feel it is something that needs to be addressed by the faculty member as soon as it is discovered. Delays can create more disruption by other students taking sides in the conflict and soon learning stops and chaos ensues! Developing and requiring students to acknowledge a classroom Netiquette policy helps avoid issues. I tell my students we can disagree, but there is never a cause to be disagreeable in the classroom. Most of the colleges I teach for have their own version of a netiquette policy, so I always adhere to the posted rules. I ask students to read and acknowledge this policy via email. I ask them if they have any questions, to please let me know and if they encounter any bullying type of behavior to let me know immediately. In my Faculty Expectations section I clearly state that I have a zero tolerance policy for any bullying type of behavior. I've not had but a handful of issues in the 4 years I have been teaching online courses. I think a proactive approach, nipping infractions in the bud quickly, and a clearly stated policy helps to keep the classroom running smoothly without conflicts. Thank you! Dr. Angela Thomas

My courses meet in an online environment where we do web conferences once a week. The students can use chat, video, and audio to interact with me. The students prefer to use chat instead of the audio/ video set-up. What would you recommend to get the students more involved? Right now they only really use their chat box, but for me I really want them to participate orally and visually to break up the course and make it less teacher centered.

My courses meet in an online environment where we do web conferences once a week. The students can use chat, video, and audio to interact with me. The students prefer to use chat instead of the audio/ video set-up. What would you recommend to get the students more involved? Right now they only really use their chat box, but for me I really want them to participate orally and visually to break up the course and make it less teacher centered.

In general do students learn more in online or on-campus classes?? I have been teaching online classes for over 12 years and on-campus classes for over 30 years. I believe students learn more and retain information best in a full term 16-week on-campus class. Thanks Fred K

What is your policy on discussion thread. I like to see students post at least three different days. I like the initial post to be at least 100 words. I require references in their main post. I like to see the responses at least 5 sentences. Thanks Fred K