Posting a bio to allow students to get to know you/your experience is a way to project yourself.
The importance of my presence as an online instructor.
I learned a great way to interact and gain student trust is through engagement and interaction in discussions. Additionally, providing student information on our experience and credentials can be beneficial as well.
If students are informed about you and your expertise, they will feel more protected in an unfamiliar environment such as online classes. They are hesitant if they have never done it before and they need to have assurance that you will guide them and not leave them hanging.
How important it is to post biography of yourself and engaging the students to do the same. This eases tension a student may have doing online learning.
It's important to make your lecture material relevant to real-world applications. I often recall personal experiences in my clinical career to make the course content relatable. I try to explain to students how a theoretical concept could apply to them in real life.
I great way to make my presence felt in the class is responding to discussions and making announcements.
Posting a bio helps build report amongst the students and the instructor so everyone can get to know each other.
I realized that I needed to share more of myself to the students so that they are aware of my background, credentials and experience. In addition, I also need to know more about them so that it is a two-way street to strengthen how we can communicate with each other. By learning more about each other can lead to trusting and building a relationship that can assist in mutual respect.
This module gave some very good examples of how to make your presence known to your online learners. I liked sending a personal bio and then asking the students to do the same.
I learned the comparative of classroom face to face and e-Learning. Strategies can be used from in person to on-line.
Its important to get to know your students even if your not face to face. This will allow you to connect on a student teacher level.
It is important to share who you are and what you bring to the students so they will feel comfortable doing the same throughout the course. Communication is the main way to promote positive student outcomes. The instructor should blaze the trail from day one to set expectations.
Learnt about the importance of knowing each others background in order to have a good working relationship, establishing teacher-learner relations and projecting instructor's credentials to gain learners respect, even behind the computers.
In e-learning making discussion pages is a vital tool to keep students engaged with each others and with their instructor too. These discussions can be material related and can be used as a feedback and evaluation means to improve the quality of the learning experience.
I learned that I should create a bio and get my students to do a bio on the first day.
It is important to get to know your students as much as they need to get to know you providing print out will help to navigate the class.
Maintaining accessibility to the learner and providing insight on your background may assist the learner to establish success and setting expectations.
My takeaways in this module would be to post a biography about me in my classes and ask the students to talk about themselves. I always try to build a great community in my courses but I think this could help me more.
I learned how important it is to make your presence felt and that the students feel supported by that presence. I also learned the many ways to accomplish this with specific online communication methods.
