Guest Facilitator Satrohan Mangal

An excellent answer, Anthony. The msot striking statement you havemade, in my opinion, is providing learning activities that not only would support the achievent of the learning outcomes; but also, would engage the learner in an meaningful manner. Satrohan

Anthony: Your answer serves as constant and solid reminder to all of us who teach online-----the importance of the physical presence of the Instructor in an online environment. Satrohan

Agreed on all counts, Anthony. Other examples of competencies that fall under the same category youmentioned are: Negotiation skills Sales strategies Presentation skills Competencies that are performance-based and driven by psychomotor skills. Satrohan

Tricia: For a moment there, I was beginning to wonder about the different perspective on the question being addressed in the forum; until you mentioned that you might have gotten off topic. Imust, however, admit that you have expressed some interesting very statements some of which would serve as excellent Discussion questions in and of themselves. Yes; I share the same opinion------it is more difficult to manage students in an online environment. Satrohan

Tricia: I agree with you that a student's attitude and orientation towards knowledge acquisition do have a strong influence on how successful the student is in any learning endeavour. This applies to both online or traditional classroom learning environments. We differ in terms of learning gains. All things being equal, I believe students are likely to achieve higher levels of learning in an online environment. Satrohan

Thank you kindly, Paul, for sharing this resource with us. I will review this Web site shortly. Satrohan

Agreed on all counts, Paul. Providing timely feedback becomes more of a challenge when our courses include activities such as case studies in which the choreographing approach has been adopted to teach the case studies. Satrohan

Yes Paul. The course must be organized in a robust manner. What are some characteristics an online course must contain before it can be deemd to be properly constructed? Satrohan

Agreed, Paul. Here is a question fo you. Do you think that it will take longer to know a stduent in an online environment than it would in an on-the-ground setting? Satrohan

Agreed Paul. The adoption of the hybrid approach has posed a significant problem for Learning Instutions which want to take their entire programs National or International. In other words, they want to place all components of all courses online. Should an Institution decide to do so, what measures must it take to ensure that students are exposed to right kinds of learning experiences? How must they control for cheating? Satrohan