Jonathan Musci

A good reminder from this section was that students will still come with their various learning styles and behaviors regardless of the fact that it is a virtual setting.

Whether asynchronous or synchronous, conversation and communication are key to successful and effective online learning. The instructor needs to effectively facilitate conversation with various students over virtual platforms.

Regardless of space or distance it still remains important for an online instructor to continue to assert their influence, presence, and authority as a teacher. It is important to still build that relational capacity with students, even in a virtual setting. Having students creat bios is one way of begining to accomplish this goal. 

When I first began as a virtual or online professor I definitly was learning on the fly as it was mainly due to the global pandemic. Previously I had been completely in person. I think this section emphasized the importance of the professor reviewing, understanding, and becoming an expert on the delivery methods, and other important details, of not just the course itself but how the students are recieving the course in a virtual setting.