Richard Ullery

This response to or for change for the students to adapt to online learing needs to start before the reach the post-secondary level.There may be a need for greater recourses to help the inst/proffesor that has been in a pre-set information delivery to help them adapt as well. The shift or change will only be as good as the efforts of the people in the classroom that are F2F with the students.  If they are not comfortable with and do not support the shift or change this will be reflected to the students and in turn by their efforts.

At our school/campus we have just moved to a blackboard based system. This is putting greater pressure on the student to their part (if you will) of the learning process. It quickly becomes clear which student are more self mature and need less follow up to take care of their studies.

At our present point of eveloution from all campus based learning to online learning we are sort of a work in progress. We are a hands on technical institiue and as such the students must come on campus for mechnical/technical skills based labs. As with some of the lesson mentioned it would not be fesible to expect each student to have access to the same exact traing equipment in order to fairly evaluate each student.

If you do not havecheck points os some other point of accountability you will tend to lose that 20% or so that will only complete assignments if they know they are being watched or held accountable.

Our school has gone to a blended learning, on line leacture and F2F labs whitin the last year. The probem we as instructors are seeing is the time management and maturity of our students. Part of our students feel everything else in their lives is more importand than taking time to comlete their online lessons.

Our school has just gone to this style format in the last year, we have been F2F prior to that. this will be a very good resource for the instructors.

Richard Ullery

The biggest challenge with youger students is if they cannot get "instant"results to a problem most will not invest the time or effort to engage in critical thinking even after they process is explained and demenstrated to them. Too often if they just say "I don't know" someone else will will supply them with an answer.They cannot see a place or time in their future they don't have access to a electronic device "phone" or someone else to give them answers.

Depending on the students social confort level the process of getting most or all of the students engaged may take serval days to weeks. You would have to start with question you know they can answer and work up from there.

Richard Ullery

Open style question are by far the best style of questions. Be sure when asking them that you consider the comprehension of the student as well as the material. You need to make sure the student has the abitlity to answer the question correctly.

Richard Ullery