Tena Crews

Lisa, It is a consideration of your audience analysis you pointed out in a previous forum posting. Consider everything. Thanks.

Lisa, Right on. Always knowing you audience and content increases the opportunity for more learning experiences. And, wiout essential communication with meaningful feedback, students will be frustrated and the learning process will suffer. Thanks for your input.

Dr. Glenn, Effectively using rubrics and Bloom's Taxonomy together is essential. I love a tool that can be effective in helping understand the learning outcomes (which I actually put in the rubric) and the components of the project, as well as how they will be assessed. Thank you for your comments.

Dr. Glenn, right on. The instructor must serve as a facilitator. This is a difficult transition for some instructors who are used to the F2F classroom and a lecture environment. But, it's an important and necessary transition. Thanks for the resources as well. Kudos!

Dennis, To encourage more participation in course evaluations by students, I have provide minimal extra credit or some schools do not assign final grades until course evaluations have been submitted. I also conduct formative evaluations during the course and that gets the students used to completing evaluations and they are more likely to do the final evaluation as well. But, as you said, use whatever datay ou get. ;-)

Dennis, You are right. Peer feedback is different from student feedback as they are looking at it from a totally different perspective. The more feedback we get from a variety of audiences, the more we also see what we are doing differently. Thanks!

Dennis, Yes, I agree. Activities and projects are necessary. I am a believer in project-based learning so that students can apply what they have learned in the course to a real-world problem. Some times there is no right answer/solution, it's how well they defend their answer and have done the research. Thanks for your input.

Dennis, You are so right. Students do not many times read. We should provide voice over lectures, videos, simulations, discussion boards, chat rooms, etc. to engage the students in the learning process. Online instruction does not have to be heavily text based. Thanks!

Dennis, Right on. It's important to have some knowledge of where the students "are coming from" and what they have learned when they leave the course. That's a good way to see if they achieved te learning outcomes. Thanks for your input.

Marcia, Right on. I love those "magic" things in education! It is always nice to have something that benefits the students Nd instructors. Thanks for your input.