David Engel

These newer techniques will require more skillful instructors. Also, the administrators who implement these techniques must inculcate the need for interaction with careful monitoring. An instructor must be ever mindful of all actions taking place on open forums in order to ensure correct information is being communicated. Personal experience has shown that once incorrect technical information has been abosrbed, great effort takes place to reteach the correct information. Those of us who are passionate about instructing in technical schools go to great lengths to make sure our information is correct. Therefore, the instructor must closely monitor and guide open forums.

Care must be taken when using student input. Some students are very uninformed on the topic but try to persuade you to their point of view. If they add information to a topic the instructor must check the facts very carefully or other students will be gravely misinformed.