Tena Crews

Ana, The information you provide here aligns well with some of your other answers in other forums. Communication, effective delivery of content, and assessment are all key elements of effective online teaching. Nice job.

Ana, Students seem to feel free to provide feedback to instructors. This is essential to improve the course. Peer feedback is also important as those who have taught the course before, or those who are familiar with teaching can provide essential tips which may also make the course better the next time it is taught. Thank you.

Ana, It is important to be positive and provide individual assessment/feedback. One key component you touched on is that students need to understand why what they are doing wrong is wrong. This helps students learn from the feedback and makes it more relevant and meaningful. Thank you.

Ana, These are all good questions to answer. As you have noted, the delivery and how students receive the content can be two different questions, but they must work together. Nice job.

Robert, Developing that sense of trust is absolutely crucial. It may take time and you may actually develop it in different ways with different groups of students. And, as you noted, articulating (communicating) learning outcomes and expectations to students are also essential. Nice job.

Robert, Thanks you for your organized thoughts! Many of these tie into communication, a key element to teaching online. Whether you communication through your syllabus, feedback, discussion boards, or other methods, it is essential to the learning environment. Thanks again.

Scott, Good point. Knowing what the students know (diagnostic assessment) allows the instructor to anticipate issues and provide content in a way that students can understand. . .at their level. Thanks for your input.

Robert, It's WAY cool that you are realizing what you do in the traditional course can be transferred to the online environment. Learning to teach is a process. Bringing your expertise into the classroom is to be commended. You are correct in that students want to be heard. They also want to know what is expected of them (course objectives) and want to be able to find what they need to do easily in the online environment (course design). Nice job.

John, I agree that these are important types of feedback. Getting others to provide feedback typically provides you with a vareity of feedback from many different perspectives. Nice job.

Davi, Even with one word answers, you say a lot! Communication is key to online learning and your aptitude as well as their aptitude play a signifiant part. Thanks for your input.