It's very important for the students to have faith in your credentials and knowledge of the subject area so that they feel confident in learning your course content. Allowing the students to know you and your getting to know them will help the course room another and allow you to interact more in the course.
I've learned that it is necessary to project my presence by initiating, leading, and monitoring synchronous and asynchronous discussions, as well as preparing myself mentally to provide attention and answers to questions for learners. Build an e-learning community by asking students for a short bio and include a bio of myself supported with audio or video and scripts. Now I have an idea of the kind of information that students can provide in their bio.
That was very insightful! Being new to the on-line environment, we are still getting used to all the tricks of the trade. I feel that using a video to introduce yourself in great idea for the start of a new mod. This way the instructor isnt just some abstract mystery person. Great ideas!!
I have learned from this section that it is important to build relationships with your students. You should develop trust, respect, and consideration with your students. You need to energized classroom by promoting an enriched, meaningful, and dynamic learning experience.
I need to give my experiance in the area I am teaching to give the student a better comfort level. I also need to maintain control of all aspects of the learning enviroment to insure productive and undistracted learning.
The information in this course is looking at small class sizes and older students. While much of the information will work with my students, a course with 15-20 students is very different than one with 120-150 students.
During this learning exerience, I have developed a sense of importance of getting to know your students. The biography route is a definite plus in sharing some info that I will incorporate.
I learned that it is important to get to know your students and establish a relationship with each one. Also, I learned that it is important to project and maintain your presence from a distance.
It is important to give good meaningful feedback to students in discussion boards and the like. However being careful not to take over the discussion. You don't want to spoon feed answers to students if they are supposed to be thinking for themselves? If they seem not to be on the right track about a topic, that will lead me to ask a question designed to get them back on track.
Keeping students informed and reminded about acivities.
Learning about your students and them knowing about you, is very important to success.
This module discusses the importance of establishing order and authority in the linline expereince to make the learning enrironment the best it can be. However, I like how this module stresses bulding the relationship with students by sharing about yourself to make things real with th students.
I have learned some new ways to build confidence in my students in order to build a teacher/student trusting relationship.
As a instructor you cannot cross the line. THe line can save you or pull you done. Student , instructor respect goes a long was. When you get to know things about your students . You can teach to it
Making that initial contact and making my presence know even from within the virtual education setting is a key component to student success. A short bio with success and demonstrating my expertise helps the students be comfortable within the learning setting.
Building relationships with students is the key to a sucessful school year. This module has been helpful in reminding me that it rleationships online can be built as well.
I always want to get to know my learners but I need to share my credentials, training, and expertise with the learners.
I learned that myths about projecting presence and establishing rapport with students continue to propgated. As an e-learner, I don't want to post a biography, I don't want to read biograpphies. I am not impressed with degrees etc, I know many and educated person with an alphabet behind their name that still doesn't seem to know anything. I have taken classes where the instructor knew less than students who have previously or currently self studying a topic. It doesn't take long to figure out if an instructor is qualified to teach the course regardless of what they post in their biographyPresence is projected through engagement and participation yes, authority and respect come from interactions, earning it, not by bigraphies and ice breakers.
Being more personable, as if we were in a classroom. Creating interaction between yourself, students, and themselves. Helps create more than just one way to grab a students attention- in a good way
If students can relate to you, they will trust you more and open up to you.
