Michael Tillman

Critical Thnking and Problem Solving come from experience. Interactive instruction to build skills requires activities to make students process through Six Steps known as "Ideals" 

1. Identify
2. Define
3. Enumerate
4. Analyze
5. List
6. Self Correct

Planning Lessons using interactive activities that use the "Ideals" process help students gain experience in Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. The last step Self Correct is the most important to reflect on the full porcess.

Workload Management Strategies for Teaching Online --> WLMS for Course Revisions

Instructors need to seek Professional Development and can be both formal or informal. This improves skills, manges workload, and improves instruction to enhance the learning process.

(ADDIE) Analysis, Design, Developement, Implementaiton, and Evaluation can be used for Course Revision which best derived from a variety of aduinces, Student, Peers, and Aministrators.

Key Elements or Objects should be Dynamic Elements to keep information relevent to providing students learning needs. Formative Revision is dynamic and communicates to students when to Start, Stop, or Continue doing in their learning process.

Workload Management Strategies for Teaching Online --> WLMS for Communicating and Collaborating

Instructing in an Online LMS requires understanding the social meda communication tools available for instructors to be effective, allows for social presence, and gives the instructor the tools to give positive constructive feedback in a timely manner.

In Collaboration clear Boundries need to be set to clearly communicate established communication for content and feedback expecations. Word Templates allow for structure feedback that is constistant and reduces Student and Teacher WLM. 

Workload Management Strategies for Teaching Online --> WLMS for Teaching Online

LMSs differ and the ADDIE (Access -Design-Develop-Implement- Evaluate is the simpilest form. Complexities in Online learning come from no F2F contact and can be asychronous causing communication to break down from Instructor to Student, Student to Instructor, and Student to Student. Focus needs to be maintained to keep Students and Istructor motivated keeping Visibilty/ Social Pressance is key and leadership is shown by being engaged and consistant setting good examples and sticking to time lines with good feedback.

Workload Managment Stategies (WLMS) are different for the LMS for the type class. Storage of information needs to be organized to make sure technology, curriculum, and discussion are fluid between Students and Instructors (S2S), (I2S), and (S2I). Online Instructors need to keep control over Structure, Processing, and Delivering information. As time and experiences increase in the Online formats information can be stored and reused making time managmenet better for both Students and Instructor.

Successful Online Learning Techniquies start with Goal Setting. Areas for goals can be family , finanical, career, education , physical, phsycological, service, and others. Online learning and successful planning from both Instrucor and Student are based from infromation, skills, and knowledge and through good planning and organization learning experiences are increased and improved. The biggest pitfall in Online learning is procrastination and throuh good Time Managment schedules learning quality experiences for both Instructor and Student are improved. 

In your Learning Management System LMS focus on Student not Teacher with Balance between presentation and content. Content needs to be accessable to all students. Personalize your Online community to fit your teaching style and be aware that is Dyanmic and continuially changing and developing. Feedback from students good or bad can help in adjusting your content delivery.

As and Online Instructor Communication needs to be Clear, Professional, and Appropriate (CPA) to the students, student to student, and student to teacher. This forms a Community of Practice (COP) that engages everyone in the Online Classroom process. Reading and Writing are very important for students to know that their learning is up to them and by establishing strong Academic Honesty Policy (AHP) gives students the tools needed with helping everyone to be successful in Online learning.

Interaction in post and discussion as it relates to the course are reflective to the student and help guide them through the course. Be concise with bites of information giving realistic timelines and set goals. This helps Online students succeed meeting course objectives.

Assessment in traditional sense is content specific and does not truly assess what a student may have learned. Assessment in the Holitic sense allows for reflections of different interpretation of the same content depending on application and understanding, not easy but a good way to help students is to review the test after completion.