This module discusses the topic of teachers as directors. In an active learning environment, we should be in the background monitoring allowing students to find their own creative ways to achieve learning goals. Two actions are expected for students in an active learning setting: involvement and engagement. Students will see an instructor that is directing as "not teaching" just because they are used to passive learning than active learning.
Students come to us with a variety of skills or lack of skills and it is our duty to guide this student towards mastery of those skills. In particular time management. In my experience, this is the most challenging F2F or distance learning. A way to ensure students stay on task is to keep an open line of communication. As a distance learning instructor, I have researched active learning techniques and how to use the technology available to practice these techniques.
The end of each lesson should include an assessment that can be done in many ways. It is important to offer students rubrics so that they know what the expectations are for their assignments and also for the teacher to grade assignments efficiently.
