This module has helped me to understand that while I am the content expert, the course should be designed with help from the students to gain ownership and feel empowered to be an active member of the course.
Wonderful insight to how important it is to incorporate different learning styles into course delivery to help students with learning at their pace and mode of learning. It is not enough to recognize students different learning styles yet continue to deliver content in only one or two learning styles. This module encouraged evaluation of how I am presenting and engaging students towards learning.
The more control students have over their learning the more they will learn. Finding ways, activities, assignments that allow more of this in course design. Being more intentional in trying to find these things and set it up. The issue for me seems to be time to do it and when working with limited technology such as D2L that does not have the flow like this course does with graphics and short things floating in, etc.
I learned the importance of promoting active learning. Often times I find it easier to just teach a concept, but by encouraging students to become more active and searching for the answer. Then reporting back to me, may be the better option.
The biggest challenge I find is getting the students to be active in their learning process. So many of them want the information spewed to them just so they can pass a test and move to the next assignment. I teach Administrative Office courses and they require the students to actually produce documents for grading. Students complain I am giving them too many assignments but if they don't complete several assignments then they are not truly learning the art of document formatting.
Provid9ingf online learning is probably more cumbersome than inperson learning. The instructor really needs to know their students and their backgrounds.
I teach a hybrid class which involves student directed learning and in classroom. Next semester I intend to modify the course to include Zoom sessions during our remote weeks. I like the idea of using polls. It is not a very user friendly service with Zoom, but a good option to see what everyone thought of the class session or what the take aways were.
This course emphasizes the importance of preparation. Active learning is possible in asynchronous time as well as synchronously. Effort leads to results, good reminder.
There are many active learning activities that can promote student engagement in the learning process. The key, however, is to encourage full student engagement to participate, interact, and promote new ideas and projects so that their own learning can be fully realized.
Students must be fully engaged in their learning. They must want to put forth an effort
Planning acompanied with good time managements is necessary for active learning.
Active participation in a training is essential for student understanding. Sitting back and not actively participating does not good in overall learning.
I absolutely disagree that it's not much more difficult to engage students online than in a classroom. There is no physical presence. Our university does not mandate Zoom participation. When I was in the classroom I learned much about the students - before and after class and during breaks. There is no equivalent online.
Active learning involves pulling the students in for participation n the learning process.
Active learning is REAL learning, where the learner is involved with the content, not just passively absorbing (or more likely NOT absorbing) information
Our online class are geared to the student self learning. I know I am constantly tellinbg the students the are in charge of their own learning and expect them to be active in the course. Their participation makes the course successful.
Engagement & planning are key for success
I learned that active learning should be not judged by the teachers to the students because there are a lot of ways to evaluate the students if they are learning with the class. I doesn't mean they might not be participating, it does not mean they are not actively learning.
Each student has a different way of actively learning. Students can still be engaged even without saying anything. This means students have different learning styles.
I love learning online because it is learning at the comfort of your home, where you cannot spend time outside exposing risk of the pandemic and at the same time learning is still ongoing.
