Reflection on your course and facilitation plan after each session or maybe even after each module is helpful. Aspects to reflect on include: course structure, meeting learning needs, students' comfort with technology, the feedback provided, and your own leadership in the course.
I find that my students value feedback from the instructors. They want to know what is important to know and how to apply what they know to real life situations.
It is important to utilize methods that will enhance student engagement in all aspects of the course. In online teaching, instructors should facilitate learning, which is often realized through modelling of correct behavior and expectations, and providing timely, personal, and informative instructions and feedback. In addition, instructors should take student feedback into consideration, along with student outcomes, and course content to determine what can be done to improve instruction.
It is important to engage students with online learning. I intend to use various methods such as breaks inbetween online lecturing with a refresher or recap about questions.
Being the "Guide on the Side" and facilitating discussions and interactions with the course content is an important role of the instructor in the online environment. Making expectations for interactions clear is not only important at the start course but on an ongoing basis. It is important for the course instructor to keep tabs on the direction that discussions are taking and gently guide them back on track when they are going off topic.
Participation from students is critical for online engagement to work effectively. It may be difficult to get students to participate so we need to determine motivation for this to work.
We also need to continuously evaluate feedback to adjust courses.
An instructor must be focused on co tent creation facilitation and engagement and never allow the online environment to become centerEd the socially aspect of student engagement
in order to be true leaders in learning.....students must be lead by example and instructors must be willing to adapt and adjust their teacing style at any moment and facilitate a smooth transition for students as they do thesame
As a facilitator, there are many important tasks. Communication, fostering a learner-centered environment, structuring problem-based learning, and providing meaningful, informative feedback are all essential.
It is important to engage the students for a more successful learning environment. It is also important to facilitate engagement amongst peers.
The different roles the professor has and how to support students
Feedback to students is very important. I will make sure that I am in constant communication with my students concerning their progress.
I the emphasis of creating a framework of timely, personal informative feedback to keep the student from feeling isolated or detached. Also, I like the the emphasis of reflecting on a problem: Problems are not bad; they can be opportunities to improve the course.
To stay in contact and communicate with students and make changes in a timely manner to facilitate student and course success
I do have to resist a tendency to lapse back into lecturing; but as thelesson points out, there is a need to identify the best approach for each course. The key is to introduce the foundational concepts clearly enough that the students can begin to build on them, otherwise, their self-directed learning has unstable foundations on which to build.
IT is difficult with communicating in a virtual environment
It is necessary to use a multi-faceted approach in course evaluation.
I learned that it is important to include student feedback while you are evaluating what changes may need to be made to a course.
Being an effective instructor comes down to more than just the class structure and delivery of the content. You must be able to be an administrator, an effective communicator outside of class, and a shepherd for the students in order for them to gain as much knowledge as possible during their time with you.
This session emphasized the importance of communication and how teaching styles play an important role in the over-all learning outcomes. Evaluating teh course and using communication and surveys together pesents a more definitive picture.
