Traci Klein

I have encountered at least one student in every course who feels it is his or her responsibility to let a fellow student know how terrible their discussion post was. How would you recommend dealing with these types of students?

I have a very hard time giving credit for students who post late to the discussion boards. In my opinion, these posts are no longer relevant once the week has passed and it is unfair to their fellow students who did not have the advantage of seeing their posts. Often though I do have cases of students with good reasons why they could not post on time. How do others handle this situation?

While I understand that welcoming each student to the course personally could possibly make a huge difference in their participation this seems rather time consuming especially when you have multiple classes starting at the same time. Would a group email welcoming them possibly achieve the same outcome. This is assuming in the email you introduce yourself and let them know you are available for questions by phone as well as email?

I have previously taught at ground schools, but never online until recently. I have now been teaching online for almost a year, but am still learning how to be an effective online teacher. Could you please share some of your most successful strategies you use when teaching online?

I teach accounting and in my accounting discussion forums I find that when I do not respond immediately my students feel they have the incorrect answer. Does how timely we answer our students depend on the type of course?

Would it be beneficial to try and group students together based on their generations? Could I, as an online instructor, encourage my students to seek out communication with other students from the same generation or would it be beneficial to encourage my students to "mingle" with those from other generations?

How can we, as instructors, encourage our students to participate in our discussion forums with substantive posts? Also, how can we get students to understand the importance of the discussion forums and how these forums will create a sense of a "real class"?

How important is it to understand who we are teaching to and what generation they are from when we embrace technology within our online courses?