Jodi Krausman

I had never heard this term before but it makes a lot of sense. I think students need structure as students build on their previous experience, skills and knowledge, they can continue to learn and grow. I need to develope a new course and I plan to use the eight tasks: • Provide clear instructions • Clarify purpose • Keep students on task • Offer assessment to clarify purpose • Direct students to worthy sources • Reduce uncertainty and disappointment • Deliver efficiency • Create momentum in oder to allows student learning with technology instead of learning from technology. Has… >>>

I am in a position in which I need to develop a course that will be blended (classroom and online component). I'm having a terrible time getting started. I think it is a bit overwhelming getting started so I'm going to use the ideas from this class to break it down into managable pieces. I have experience in project management and that is what they teach us, it is overwhelming to think of the whole thing but if you break it down into manageable pieces, that makes it easier to get started. Has anyone else experienced this? Please feel free… >>>

The course gave us many good strategies for providing feedback to students and one thing that I do in every class is post in the announcements when I will complete grading. I typically let them know via announcement and chat sessions, that I plan to grade by Wednesday and if there is any problem and I'm not able to grade by Wednesday, I'll post an announcement. I also post announcements when I'm done grading so students don't wonder and worry. I've notice that this cuts down on the number of emails I receive. Are there strategies that you've developed in… >>>

During the instruction I read the challenges with online instruction and noted the following list: 1. Lack of in-person contact with students. 2. Lack of interaction amongst students. 3. Little pride in work. 4. Limitations in some LMSs effectively discourage any form of critical thinking. 5. Too much grading and too much responsibility 6. Limited technological skills of students I really wanted to comment on #5 because I find grading to be very time consuming. I know how important substantive feedback is to students but it takes so long to grade individual assignments. I teach accounting so typically if the… >>>

I really liked the idea of starting a FATQ - Frequently Asked Technology Questions. The suggestion in the training material included if a course is being taught for the first time, as students ask technology-based questions, the instructor should post the question and answer in the FATQ section. The second time the course is taught, the instructor can simply refer the students to the FATQ section to review questions; however, if additional questions occur, they can be added at that time. This is easy to do and would be a great time saver over multiple classes. Has anyone used this… >>>