Paul Zettler

I have students do course evaluations but would like to get more feedback and evaluations from other sources.

The use of rubrics has been crucial for my online classes. Before I adopted them, I spent much more time trying to format feedback to students and I don't think they paid as much attention to my feedback. I would like to start doing some video feedback, I think that would be helpful.

I feel my syllabus could be improved. While I think it is structured well and provides an outline of what students will be doing, it is not dynamic and I see how that could be very helpful.

This makes a lot of sense. Have a format and template that is consistent will help learners focus on the content.

It is difficult to get testing done. One thing that I have done is use my online curriculum with face to face classes so that they can point out problems for me.

There was a lot of ground covered in this module. 

Attrition is a real problem and sometimes it is very difficult to know what hurdles the students is facing.

Yes I have always felt that synchronous meetings are used to accomplish more than they should. Asynchronous works much better. Now having said that, I do feel like there are times for synchronous meetings as well but more just to build a sense of community.

I have done all of these things in my online courses.

There are some that I have built close relationships with but very few.

Most do not want to interact very much, but I still think it is important to provide the opportunity.

Just providing a supporting helpful presence is huge.

I have mentored students that were taking online courses, where there was really no teacher on the other end to get help from or intereact with. This is a problem. 

There is a little comfort in knowing that teachers have not totally been replaced by computers, yet.