This course has taught me different online tools, delivery of online instruction, and tips to keep the students engaged.
Course description components
Online discussion is asynchronized! This allows for flexible in discussions.
Timely feedback is key for student improvement.
In this module I learned about the application of critical thinking for the student when developing a Syllabus. The grading criteria was analyzed including the Quizzes. Quizzes should be used as morale boosters to help the student build confidence. Reviewing with the student what they did wrong on a quiz, in a timely fashion, is important to assist them to improve on the Exams.
Students need feedback on their quizzes and exams to determine where they went wrong in their thinking in answering the question.
This section provided me with the thought behind each lesson plan. It also clearly conveyed the five different lecture formats for my own self-assessment. I will explore ongoing change to my course presentations to make them more relevant to students. Is it time we all did a course reassessment?
This lesson has shown me the course components and building of a syllabus that is easy to follow and informative.
The content of the course can be delivered through assignments, lectures, discussions. Assignments that contribute to the students' enhacement of their critical thinking skills also increase the value ot a course from the students perspective. They can be focused on problem-solving which the students can easily apply to their daily living and interactions in their comunitites. Critical thinking skills drive studnets engagement.
Lectures: The five types of lectures need to be planned and crafted carefully and thoughfully to create relevancy and course value as well. These five kinds of lecture styles are: Expository, Suspenseful answer, Probem-Solving, Case-Study, and Interactive.
Discussions: They can be posted or asynchronous, and Chats or synchronous or in live-time
The comprehension of the content can be assessed in two formats: in a quick succinct format like a quiz intended to give immediate feedback and often acts as 'ego boosters' for students or in the form of exams. Exams could be geared to assess what the student did not understand as well as wha they grasped correctly. Exams are lenghtier or more comprehensive and they should be structured to be only taken once because their scores contrbute to final grades. Some exams are automatically graded but care needs to be given to planning time to the tests that need to be manually graded. Is is highly recommended to provide immediate feedback of performance after each quiz or exam to allow the student to synthesize their progress and realize and correct their errors in a timely manner.
Pay attention to writing test and quiz questions... relevance is important
This is interetsing although I am not a fan of multiple chocie quizzes. Students learn more in dicussions and writing papers.
Constructive feedback in a timely manner is important. Working towards the Final Exam students should have been provided clear assessment to achieve the objective of the course and do well on the Final Exam. Feedback helps students guage progress.
This section helped me to understand the importance of feedback in a timely manner for students.
Immediate feedback is important for students as the just-completed assignment or quiz is fresh in their minds.
This section taught me the components of a well-designed introductory statement for an assignment. The prompt questions on what an assignment introduction should entail are quite insightful. I will review the assignment and discussion prompts and adjust them so that they provide substantial information to complete each assignment.
Syllabus of your course should include Expectations,Schedule,Grading system and instructor contact information.Quizzez are good way to evaluate a learner and model answers should be provided.Immediate feedback after Quizzez is important.In synchoronous learning discussions can be either posted as chats or synchronous.
On line lectures should be in the form of direct delivery short and precise,graphic based.
On line quizzes give the students the opportunity to retake quizzes.
Thorough explanation of course components
Experiential learning or service learning can deeply engage students while giving them a chance to use their new learnings in real-life (in their job or personal life). This builds a connection between the classroom and what the student experiences and does outside the classroom.
I learned that it is important to ncorporate critical thinking exercises in your course content and learning activities wherever possible.
