It is important to keep students engaged, minimizing students attrition, counseling and communicating with them, keeping their records, resolving conflicts and dealing with undesirable behaviors.
Evaluate and deal with competition and behavioral issues.
Online teaching brings all sort of challenges with students. I learned the importance to be prepared and to expect the unusual. Students are human and tend to behave differently. No matter what, there will be those who can never be satisfied.
I like the recommendations on how to deal with the different types of disruptors during online learning. As a brand new instructor, these types of recommendations are extremely helpful to me.
In this module I've learned about adult learner attrition. Keeping course records, communicating with students, counseling students, dealing with undesirable behavior, resolving student conflicts and minimizing student attrition.
The behavior & conflict management modules, coupled with the conversation regarding attrition was beneficial. I'm certainly guilty of discounting things I see in the F2F classroom as being relevant to the online classroom.
Managing e learning environment can be challenging. It's important to identify student leaning behaviors and styles and know how to intervene.
I believe getting to know the students, establishing and implementing their learning skills, would be easier to teach the class as a whole.
We must be prepared and able to manage a lot of situations in classroom: Procastination, conflicts, student behavior, technical issues, lack of participation, etc.
With online teaching, it is hard to keep students on tract. An easy way to do this is to make sure at the beginning of the course the students know when all the due dates of assignments are and when exams are scheduled.
From this module I learned the highest ranked method to communicate with online instructors is by email.
Comment on Adnil Soriano's post: good observation!
There are a number of various e-learners that have a different work ethic when it comes to e-learning. Thus, acknowledging how different e-leaners have a different work ethic need to be taken into consideration when engaging learners online.
One idea I picked up on was utilizing a class forum for questions - so I am not inundated with emails. I never thought about doing that before - it makes perfect sense.
Will apply this information in my class courses.
In this module, I learned how to keep student actively engaged in the e-learning environment and how communication and accountability are keep components to student retention.
There were many good points on why students may choose to drop online classes and how to keep them engaged and encouraged to stick it out.
There may be some students who will try to intentionally challenge you, and the best way to handle those types of students is to maintain your composure and respond unemotionally.
I learned that student's behavior has a lot to do with their studying and the different type of students the procrastinator, has a lot to do with e-learning.
In any online course, the instructor has to be able to manage the learning environment. In some situations, students need help stay engaged, and in other situations, students need to be moderated. I am learning to help students in either situation help themselves succeed, and also prevent disruptive behavior in the learning environment.
