You should seek feedback from students on a regular basis about how the course is progressing.
In this Module I learned that its encouraged to allow chit chat time while teaching synchronously.
There are four major disadvantages to using synchronous discussions to teach critical course content.
- Scheduling students across different time-zones or who work shifts could be a real challenge.
- The text on chat screens advance rapidly, thereby having a negative impact on slow readers.
- Analyzing and summarizing individual student input to chat sessions could also be a real challenge.
- Last but certainly not least- fast typists are likely to dominate the chat session.
The value of using a variety of forums to engage students and allow for clarification of information.
Learned the difference between synchronous and asynchronous meeting and how student participation is important. Leaned what to do when the discussion stalls and how to engage students more. Also learned that the feedback should be immediate and constructive if it needs to be. Be specific in what is missing so the student can learn and go forward in a more productive manner.
Instructors have to account for learnung styles when buildin instruction. And, small talk has a place in instruction.
Learning advantages and disadvantages of synchronous and asynchronous meetings and how is important to improve your knowledge in an interactive online instruction.
The distinction between asynchronized and synchronized communication was helpful. Short, sweet, and to the point would be my online style; nevertheless a sentence or two of small talk to start and end does establish more of a caring nature and not just business.
In "Engaging Learners" module, we learned the difference between asynchronous and synchronous discussions. I learned the types of situations in which asynchronous discussions would be more effective, and vice versa. Also learned about how to give online feedback, and about fostering effective online discussions for different types of students.
keeping the discussion board active and engaging will keep the attention of the students.
I leraned the importance of keeping your students engaged in an online leraning environment.
In this module we learned about synchronous vs asynchonous discussions. It is important to engage students to ensure student participation and how to keep discussions upbeat and active. All great information!
I found it very interesting to see the characteristics of online learning styles - avoidant, competitive and dependent. I learned the difference between asynchronous and synchronous and how to managed them during the online classes.
Nakeisha
We need to keep the discussion board active and encourage student to participate.
It is imperative to keep students engaged. Active learning via discusion boards, creative power points etc. can help keep students interested and more focused.
Good to learn about the sycnchronouse and asychronus learning and contacting the students in differnt ways to motive learning to increase their confidence and participation.
its been interesting learning the asynchronous and synchronous differences and how to approch them differently
The work that the teacher must do is essential so that his students and group feel comfortable in participating and learning the academic objectives.
The presence of the teacher and the care to establish continuous communication is an aspect that must be taken care of every day to guarantee the teaching-learning process
I learned that participation in discussion forums is important, not just student particpation but also the instructor.
