Online enrollment is growing at a rapid rate, as is the technology that supports online instruction. Instructors need to have strategies that will help them to engage online learners as well as provide them instructional support when needed. This group is for online 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.
Ask a question from your peers to help you in your professional work. Seek different points of view on a topic that interests you. Start a thought-provoking conversation about a hot, current topic. Encourage your peers to join you in the discussion, and feel free to facilitate the discussion. As a community of educators, all members of the Career Ed Lounge are empowered to act as a discussion facilitator to help us all learn from each other.
How do you deal with a student who is being disruptive to the class?
When contributing to online learning, what are some tools you use to ensure students are participating?
What group activities work in your online class?
What can instructors so to help students understand the time commitment of an online class?
What should an instructor do if students are struggling to take responsibility for their learning and prefer the instructor lecture method where they are taught what to think?
Have your learning style changed over the years?
What types of icebreakers do you use to engage the students, promote interaction, spur interest, and provide a sense of community?
What is your favorite active learning activity to use in a writing intensive course?
Considero que una de las habilidades que deben estar presentes en los docentes es la gestión emocional.
I have found that having students teach some of the didactic, they learn better, how about you?
What methods do people use to engage online students? I am active in their discussion, send individual and group messages, and hold live Zoom sessions but still there are a large number of students who simply don't engage.
This program is a great refresher.
I learned many valuable tools, especially advantages of asynchronous learning, as I had a myopic view that synchronous learning is always the best, not taking into account that students may be located in different geographical areas with different time zones.
I have enjoyed this platform
Several strong ideas for active learning strategies in this course.
Should recorded sessions be made available to students? Would it hinder attendance? Should recorded sessions only be provided with exceptional reasons?
With the proliferation of Zoom live instruction, should students always have their cameras on during sessions?
Does anyone have any recommendations on the optimal group size for a synchronous on-line learning environment? Big enough where there is meaningful interaction, but not so big where learners can just check out without being noticed.
How do other instructors encourage and manage discussion groups to help ensure that even natural introverts, or students with busy schedules, take the time to participate in the group and provide, at least occasional, thoughtful input to the discussion?
- who discovered the imporance of hand hygiene?
- how often should you wash your hands?
-why is it important to wash your hands?
-does nails compromise hand hygience?
Career Ed Lounge is embedded in over eighty professional development portals serving the career and technical education community. Performance Groups in the Lounge are integrated with related learning opportunities offered on these portals. With a few exceptions, Performance Groups are also publicly available to any member of the Lounge to maximize peer-to-peer learning and performance outcomes.
