How you handle student communications is vital to the success of the course. Let students have their conversations, but ensure you re only askingthe open ended questions, not monitoring every response. Students need to be guided, but given flexibility. Emails are for supplying information about the structure of the course. Discussion boards should contain more substantive material related to the coursework.
Knowing your students will netter help the instructor plan for the cours as far as communication and effective time mamnagement.
Workload Management Strategies for Teaching Online --> WLMS for Communicating and Collaborating
The use of effective feedback strategies will allow you as the instructor to identify and meet student needs, as well as provide encouragement for engagement.
Instructor's presence, communication and feedback is very important in an online environment as these are what students rely on, without which they would feel aliniated and lonely instead of safe and comfortable.
Section is about effective communication, managing workload resulting from student communications, setting boundaries, constructive /prompt/efficient/continous feedback and the instructor's role as a collaborator.
I will have projects which require collaboration, choice, initiative, control and presentation to help students develop critical thinking skills, team work and be able to learn how they would solve authentic world problems.
The section reinforces the need to give constant feedback to your students. Publicly and privately as necessary. I found the requirement of students logging in everyday to be unrealistic because my students tend to be working full time and many of them have other responsibilities. That is more of the ideal goal to set for the students.
The best way to manage teacher workload is to develop standards of communication.
I have learned the three types of communication in an online classroom. The student-content, student-instructor and student-student.
Students need more support and feedback in the online environment.
I learned that it is easiest to give feedback and track which you have responded to if you first have all student submissions
The online learner relies on the instructor as the main source of course information, updates and adjustments, and feedback on learner progress.
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