You can closely replicate a classroom setting with proper planning, and a solid strategy .
Thorough instruction on the basic features of online courses
Mulitple ways to engage and encourage students to use their voices using online learning platforms.
Descriptions of communication in this section need review. For many LMS used in online instruction, students have more ways to receive feedback and collaborate than described.
I agree that online learning can engage learners in the same way as face-to-face learning. The only difference is the absence of live face-to-face human interaction.
Adapting an F2F class is definitely possible. Being flexible and adopting new methods is critical.
Great ice breaker for what is sure to be what instruction will look like in the fall.
You really can do anything in an online elearning platform that you could do in a classroom... just with some modifications.
In seeing the sections about synchronous chat and asynchronous chat, I'm struck by how video conferencing - especially in these days of COVID19 - is taken for granted as if it's always been a part of online learning. It's interesting how the content in this course, so far, speaks to when online learning was more about trying as best as possible to offer a nearly as good simulation of brick and mortar learning vs. how today, it can achieve outcomes far beyond the limits of in person, conventional classes.
Everything we do in person can be done in an e-learning environment. I will try to implement more activities online than I did in the spring if we are e-learning again in the fall.
E-Learning Activities is a lot like face to face except there is no face to face!!! But asking questions is complicated online because there are more places the teacher and students can ask questions. All in all e-learning is like the classroom except you chat more and therefore it gives everyone a chance to participate.
E-learning can be applied the same way face to face learning can be.
I did not realize students could still collaborate on group projects while learning online, through asychronous chat. That's wonderful!
web confrencing bringing in a guest speaker based on the course is good this will also create interaction discussion with students and guest speaker and instructor
I have done all of this on my learning platform this spring. The only thing I am not able to do at this time due to lack of high speed internt and no camera is live lessons. I did synchoronous chat during scheduled class time where I would pose questions and the students would answer and respond to each other. Also if kids could not login at that time they answered later - asynchonous. I have used microsoft forms for quizzes and feedback.
Handouts should be provided to students to get the most from guest speakers
I learned some information and pointers that will be helpful and allow me to expose my students to guest speakers using online learning. I also learned that synchronous chat provides students and teachers the opportunity to discuss topics in an alternative form to that used in a traditional classroom.
Just about any activities that take place in a classrom are suitable for online learning, using forums and discussion boards, email and chat, and pre-prepared interactive or audio-video presentations, as well as assessment and grading.
I learned that it is important to have learning activities which meet objectives and follow a specific sequence and eloborate on the content in order to achieve the outcomes.
Great introduction, however there were parts I could not download.
