Teachers not familar with online technology will have to spend many webinar hours navigating all the need to knows on platform school will provide and than learn how to incorporate material created that is not available in the platform that is essential for a course not listed in thier courses. I hope that there will be time given for this endeavour.
The importance of learning the CMS before teaching your first course. It's always challenging the first time through, but the more you know beforehand, the better your course will go.
It is absolutly necessary to know your course material in order to be able to deliver it with confidance. Your confidance will also help put your students in a more relaxed frame of mind.
It is important to relise that all instructors teach differently but you have to remember that thay all have to teach the same thing.
It is important that you know and make sure that you have a knowledge of how to assist and or handle problems with your systems and software should a problem arise.
That it is not only enough to know your course but it is also important to know your students and there level of learnig ability. This willl help make them feel comfortable and want to come to class.
I have decided to have a list of items by my phone, that are high priority items to cover for different questions when a student calls.
There is a large learning curve from in-classroom instruction to online instruction. This may be overwhelming to my students; thus, the better I understand the online platform and the more prepared I can be with specific expectations and instructions, the more I will be able to support my students.
On-line learning is an all encompassing task to master. On-line training needs to be learned just as brick and mortar
training had to be mastered. Time is what has has to be used to brcome successful.
I plan to beome more familiar with the different applications provided within my district's CMS in order to provide students with a variety of ways to illustrate their learning.
I learned the importance of stting up goals and moving formward. I also understand that not all instructors will deliver the material in the same fashion. And I understand the need to make sure that both instructor and students have and understand how to use the technology.
It is important to know the expectation of each department within CMS. Also to make sure students can navigate and find where their assignments are and how to post responses to discussion questions.
Effective communication is one of the essential parts of learning. It specifies the outcomes of the learners.
It also will minimize the frustration of the students.
All instructors and students are different. Students will use the modules to their abilities and most feel comfortable in this setting. It provides somewhat of an anonomity to the student. Online learning and teaching takes times and once all get comfortable with the layout learning can be fun and achieved.
More than ever before, instructors must have a comprehensive understanding of their course standards and objectives in order to deliver it online (via CMS) in a fashion that is easy for students to learn the content (both synchronously and asynchronously) and navigate the CMS platform.
I feel that an e learning environment is here to stay at least for awhile. From the start, it is important to have classroom management which only can be attained by effective (excellent) communication and engaging active learning.
I feel the on-line evvironment may become stifling to students. When in class I have had students ask questions that while not specifically on topic brought the class together as we explored the answer. I don't think I will have as much flexability to do something like this on-line. I myself will have to become much more structured and driven by dates and schedules. I will need to find ways to be interactive while still being distant. New technologies allow this to happen I just need to learn how to utilize them.
I learned the basic structure of most eleaning programs, reasons causing attrition, and the components that make up a CMS.
My biggest challenge is the technical side of online learning. While I am comfortable with using the technology, supporting the students with their side is sometimes quite difficult. Remembering this as I prepare the course material is vital to a successful online format.
That I must familiarize myself with the CMS and understand the subject and that I may deliver it differently than other instructors.
