Student participation is a way of knowin if your students are learning the material. I pay close attention to those that don't participate.
Be sure to utilize asynchronous discussions. Keep students engaged by providing feedback and summaries of their responses. At the same time, don't make the majority of the comments come from you but rather allow students to continue the conversations.
The toughest thing about asynchronous meetings is not being able to see their reactions to information they are studying. Do they look lost, confused, interested, excited? Their written reaction is almost the only way for them to express any of this. Adding the opportunity for them to upload a video or audio blog would be helpful.
One way to get people to engage more with eachother is by creating small group projects so that it feels less intimidating.
Online instruction can be challenging to students who are used to face to face interraction in a tradional setting. The online instructor should encourage asychronous dscussions to engage the learners in active participation for learning to take place; students learn from fellow students and from the instructors comments and suggerstions for more learning.
When providing feedback to students... re-read... before hitting send. Make sure it is constructive and encourages continued learning.
For as difficult as it can be, one to one relationships is very important for the student to feel
did not realize there were two types communication when it comes to students and their learning
Asynchronous discussions may be the fix for the issue I've had of a handful of students regularly participating whilst the rest sit mute. Worth a try.
Information was valuable; gives you directions on handling small and large group discussions
It is interesting to learn the "prefered" learning manner, asynchronous vs synchronous. I can see why asynchronous would be the preferred learning method as it allows for the engagement of ALL learners who are likely taking the only course to accomodate their schedules. I enjoyed learning how to keep the asynchronous learning on task, engaging and how to properly give responses to discussions in an engaging manner.
I've learned the difference of asynchronous and synchronous when fostering participation. Most of the ideas I've learned in this module today have confirmed teaching practices. I am happy to know we can use emoticons in asynchronous discussions to help convey the message and to compensate for the lack of nonverbal cues.
In addition, I have learned the importance of rewording feedback to encourage participation, and to increase the studnents' confidence to partcipate in this module.
The synchronous response is not the answer for everything. It has to be used for the appropriate situations and goals.
I have learned that student participation and engaging learners can be a confidence booster.
Feedback its important either from instructor or student
Feed back is important to let the student know that you are there for them.
Understanding the differences between asyn and sync learning as well as how to schedule times and class sizes to best accomodate between both.
Fostering Asynchronus and synchronous learning is established by the instructor knowing his audience. Dividing the 6 learning styles into the approriate groups. Try not to allow the competetive, avodiance, or dependant students, not to partner up. This can cause an uneasy learning environment.
Try to focus on the collabarative, participating and indepent people to in the asynchronus learning and other 3 to work with the instructor in the synchrosus learning environment.
Remeber to always allow for question befor and after the discussions for feedback
a student can have more than one style but to different degrees for each.
