Marshall Lloyd

Discussion Comment

Others have already pointed this out, the use of rubrics is most useful with respect to grading. Students can see the minimum criteria, and many choose to meet only the bare minimum and I will point out the need to participate more in the class, and some choose to meet the minimum requirements and earn a â€œCâ€ for the class.

Marshall Lloyd

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Understand the role generations play in communication in the online co

What seems to happen is the older students have the ability to exercise judgment, offer moderation, a reasonable assessment of fact patterns, the younger students may lack the ability to make close calls and are at times unwilling to change their viewpoints as new information is presented to them.

Marshall Lloyd

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Patter of Communications

Establishing a pattern of communication, the two most important things to consider and why: 1. Do you send messages that can be clearly understood, eliminate any need to interpret the message that may vary across the intended audience? The idea is to establish consistency. 2. Are you using the maximum efficiency to reach the intended audience? You want to make sure everyone that is impacted by your message is notified.

Marshall Lloyd

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Considerations

The three most important considerations are (in my opinion): 1) Are the tools used user friendly, can someone with a high school degree understand how to use the technology with a minimum degree of effort or within a couple of hours training? 2) Can older students who may be retooling their job skills make use of the technology with minimum assistance to mitigate any hesitancy with respect to being part of an online class? 3) Have I had the necessary training to make use of the up-to-date requirements/technology that is a fundamental part of the course and is expected to… >>>

Marshall Lloyd

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Class Discussions

My perspective of class threads (discussions) is to ensure the student has addressed the main topic, and then begin to challenge what they think they know or their opinions. I give them additional information to consider, see if they are willing to change their minds or stick to your views. If they choose to maintain their viewpoints, I try again, altering the facts slightly to se if the student is now willing to change their minds when a reasonable person would make adjustments in their viewpoints.

Marshall Lloyd

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Meaningful Feedback

When developing meaningful feedback for assignments/projects integrated into youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re my online course, the three most important things to remember? 1. The feedback should be addressing the rubric, what is intended to be learned in an assignment or task; 2. The feedback needs to be offered in a positive manner, encouraging students to learn from their mistakes and offer suggestions, illustrate how the performance can be improved; and 3. Offer suggestions on tips related to the assignment, if for example the assignment is a writing projects include suggestions that relate to deduction of points; grammar, lack of documentation of the paper,… >>>

Marshall Lloyd

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Teaching Online

In teaching on-line my three biggest considerations will be: 1) Establishing the minimum standards for participation in discussions. 2) Encouraging students to participate, check back in at a later date and read other comments, even if they do not respond. 3) Encourage students to realize they can disagree with others, if you do then document the disagreement with sources that support your arguments, removing the mere opinion in a discussion or personal attacks.

Marshall Lloyd

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Online Class Discussions

For me, the three most important things to consider are: 1. Knowing the subject matter that is within your field of study. For example you may have a degree in criminal justice but lack the skills to teach in the legal courses, or you are an attorney but do not have the applied experience to teach classes on law enforcement, or corrections. 2. Continue to ask questions related to the topic, going beyond the existing parameters of the class discussion to include additional information or issues related to the assigned topic to perpetuate interest in the class discussion throughout the… >>>

Marshall Lloyd

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Managing Students

The student that is noisy can be handled by having them stay busy. If they provide a response to a discussion board assignment, I will ask additional questions and request they document their responses. Usually if they do not will repeat the response, and as they research and document their answers I may change the facts and ask additional questions and request the student to support the follow up response with scholarly sources.

Marshall Lloyd

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Engaging Students

What should be done in my view is to engage the student by asking questions. How did they arrive at a specific solution, did they think about other possibilities. The idea is to have them think for themsleves and defend reasoned responses.