Taking responsibility for learning in a technology dependent world
Part of the online instructor's role is to teach students how to take responsibility for their own learning and outcomes. With all the technological advances, students ask a question and an app answers it. What is research? Why do I need to read it if you can just tell me what to do or put a video on? So, we as online instructors, need to facilitate and explain why the process is as important as the end product. Thus, teaching students to go through the process, read instructions, read the content, and see the improvement or change at the end of the journey places the responsibility back on them, not just depending on the technology to do the work.
