When teaching in the online format, it is important to be timely with feedback and to ensure that your message is clear and easily understood. With discussions, you must still monitor the content being posted and be concise and consistent with responses. You must guide the discussion and respond appropraitely.
To provide feedback to learners in a consistent manner, making sure each learner experiences the presence of the instructor.
Focus on relationships first. Relationships are the most important element of any learning format, but they are especially critical when students are online, because students can feel disconnected from the course and isolated from each other if they are not tended to.
Reply to Miriam Levy Moreno's post:Mutual open feedbacks, great.
Learning styles:
. Avoidant
. Competitive
. Dependent
. Collaborative
. Participant
. Independent
To start with, I was made to understand the significant advantage of teaching key topics asynchronously as opposed to synchronously. Although I have yet to experience the disruptive learner, I was glad to learn about what to look for in the following learning styles avoidance, competitive and dependent. One takeaway that I will use is to increase my communication to learners that are not as actively engaged. Concerning feedback I may now include asking students about how the course is proceeding and what they may like to see improved at the two week mark.
There are different styles of teaching and learning, whether it be synchronous or asynchronous, you just have to prepare yourself well with the material, make sure you encourgage learner's participation in the discussion session, that they can interact with each other, that the comments are to the point, clear and concise and make it to where they can feel confident and motivated to do well.
I learned about the two modalities of online instruction, asynchronous and synchronous.
The information on synchronus and asynchronous was enlightenin. The examples provided clarity as to when and when not to us.
Learning the importance of tone and consistency when providing critical feedback. Prioritize the learner's dignity and motivation to continue striving for a strong educational experience.
One way to keep the students engaged is to have open discussions related to the topic being taught.
In some ways, I can see asynchronous training as being an advantage over a traditional classroom. Quiet students in a classroom will probably feel more comfortable expressing their thoughts and chatty students in a classroom may not be able to overrun the discussion.
I didn't know there were different teaching styles, now I'm very clear on them and how important each styles is to the student learning. Also, wording is a big thing to keep the students confidence ( which is extremely important in my view) positive feedback and constructive ( not negative) critiscm is essential to keep the student engaged. I also think that getting ALL the students engaged is going to be a big task, but the tips-to keep students engaged & postitive- given in this section were awesome!
I learned how asynchronous and synchronous learning differ and how feedback is essential for student learning.
The overview and analysis of Asynchronous Synchronous discussions was a vital component in this module. It is a vital component in particular for online courses to foster student participation and understand when clarification is needed.
Asynchronous discussions are key to get high participation rates. Providing feedback to students increases engaging and class participation as well.
synchronously and asynchronously will always face the challenge of studying the learning styles
With the two types of learning styles, asynchronous and synchronous the approach will be different. With asynchronous, everything does not happen at the same moment. So, in order to foster participation, share the rules, post and monitor all class discussion and maintain focus of discussion. With synchronous, instruction takes place in real time so it will provide opportunity for small talk and allow time for student to reflect on some subject matters. And whenever feedback is provided, instructor should ensure it is done in a way to encourage particpation, confidence, and motivation. It may also include constructive criticism.
Both synchronous and asynchronous meetings have pros and cons. Asychronous allows students to work at their own pace while sychronous happens in real time.
Some tips to remember: identify students who are not as active as others, coordinate learning activities for all participants and create some small groups for some of the learning.
Discussion boards are a great way to keep students in active participation.
