Kathleen Paroda

Professional development benefits not only educators but also students, who reap the benefits. 

It is important to provide timely feedback within 24 hours (business days) and within 48 hours non-business days.  

Be both organized and disciplined. Set specific days and times to complete online and offline tasks. 

Set up a dedicated place to perform online and offline tasks. Manage time better by allocating a set amount of time within a pre-set, structured schedule to perform all tasks. Avoid known distractions.

 I know that my biggest downfall is not interacting with my online students often enough. I think I am going to try to learn how to make a Wiki. I wonder if any specific courses on here can help me learn how to use some of the newer online platforms.

Closing the loop in a course revision is contingent on various types of evaluations from multiple stakeholders, including students, colleagues, and course designers.

I learned the importance of providing students with meaningful feedback. I learned that providing students with this type of feedback will allow students to place a higher value on the importance of the content I am taking my time to comment on. I have an increased appreciation for the value of peer assessment and self-assessment as tools to guide students' understanding. Finally, I view a course rubric as a learning tool in itself as well. 

I learned the importance of building a dynamic syllabus for online courses. 

I have learned the importance of consistency in formatting course content. The value of creating a variety of methods to deliver course content that appeals to different types of learners was reinforced for me. I have also learned that creating a course objective database to house various types of learning enhancement tools, like videos and graphs, will help keep me better organized.