As an instructor make sure you are being a good facilitator of the online course. Make sure you have evaluated your teaching styles and student learning styles to get optimal learning from your students. The instructor should provide multiple feedback for the students and create a student centered learning environment where students want to learn.
Having a very well defined syllabus is going to be very important.
We need to find ways to engage our students in the content and to promote communication between the student and the instructor as well as between the students themselves.
Utilizing student feedback will help to decide which methods were most effective. Using a variety of methods to encourage student engagement increases the rate of success in the course.
Providing informative feedback is one of the most important aspects of the role of an instructor. It’s critical to make sure to give the feedback in a timely and informative manner as well. This is great for students learning and helps them from feeling isolated or detached in an online environment.
Students need meaningful feedback. However, it is important to make sure that the communication that you send out is not overly joking, sarcastic, etc. There are no non-verbal cues in online learning, so communication is taken literally.
We need to have comunication with the student and find a way for them to enjoy participatinig.
The instructor, as a facilitator, needs to evaluate student learning to determine if learning occurred and if the academic, social, and pragmatic needs of the learner were met.
The syllabus should be the first place to establish expectations for student engagement.
There are many different ways to facilitate online courses. It is important for you to figure out what works best for your online course.
Since my teaching philosophy has always been more of a constructivist with a focus on student centered learning, the role as a facilitator, happens to be my preferred style of teaching. That being said, I learned a lot about how to better implement, organize, and communicate to my students expectations and learning as their “guide on the side” as the course described.
I learned that online education is student self oriented an instructors are facilitator of learning processes.
Communication and feedback are very important in an online environment just as in the regular classroom.
In online instruction, you lose the privaledge of non verbal. Make all content have intent.
Yes you must becareful how you communicate using technology. Students can not see fascial cues and they could take what your saying in an entirly different manner in which you intended.
It is important as the teacher to set the standards and expectations of communication early and enforce said expectations
I am one who believes that feedback is one of the most important returns for our students. Teaching on-line provides direction for me to manage online discussions and design my questioning and listening feedback skills. This will be at the top of my priority list.
What I took away was it is important to understand your style of teaching and it is important to evaluate and reflect on how you deliver your class. I beleive that reflection is the key to every good teacher and I plan on doing this in my online class.
Teaching in an online format requires instructors to be more student-centered and to act as facilitators to help students meet course objectives
yes very true feedback from students is very helpful for us a instructors. gives us the oppurinity to better ourselves as educators.
