Plan ahead. Time management is important.
Post clear expectations, objectives, and desired outcomes. Prioritize your time. Maintain a social presence.
It is necessary to plan and manage your time, also important to set rules and boundaries.
Time Management is key and there must be an extreme need to set a work-life balance along with block out times for research, assignment posting, and responses because without such workload management instructors are more likely to experience burn-out.
I have said for years that any degree is also a degree in organization. This has not decreased with technology but rather increased as file systems and hard copy paper forms have become digital. However, while most of us would not dream of having analog files in one stack in a corner and consider that organized, many do not consider their electronic system of organization with files, nesting, and ease of access a focus or priority. This not only needs to occur with the professor but that needs to be transmitted to the student, lest they are buried in the digital stack of readings, ebook, literature, writing assignments, and videos.
Being organized and letting students know up front what your expectations are is very important. Frequent communication increases one's online presence. Social nteraction is very important among students.
Anticipating our roles as administrators will help save time when the course is up and running. The same time management and focus skills we provide the students are the ones we need to utilize as teachers.
Learning specific methods for managing overloads and good time mnagement skills are important.
Work-life balance, something I always stress to myself as being very important to prevent burnout.
I realized there are a few things that I need to work on. Time management, rules and regulations and also quality feedback and making the most of your time.
There are many important keys in this section, but the most important key, to me, is prioritizing teaching online and your personal life. You must manage your time properly and set strict boundaries. It's important to ease your workload and stress levels. A few things to help with that are; Organization (managing your workload), Discipline (blocking certain times of your week and weekends for responding to learners), Flexibility (selection of appropriate technology for your online course), and Distinguishing between work and personal life (set boundaries).
Organize your class before the term begins. Communite clearly
Make sure I am prepared so things run smoothly.
Again, time management is key for faculty and students. Setting boundaries is important especially when working from home. The work/home line is blurred and it is importatnt to set boundaries with students so you do not feel the pressure of always being 'on'.
While time management is not a new concept, this course focused on how to manage time and workload in the online environment. It was a good reminder of the importance of organization and discipline in managing workload.
Planning is a key pre-requisite for time management.
Good things to remember to keep up the numbers and students active.
- Nine Events of Instruction
- Gain attention
- Inform learners of objectives
- Stimulate recall of prior learning
- Present the content
- Provide learning guidance
- Elicit performance (practice)
- Provide feedback
- Assess performance
- Enhance retention and transfer to the job
managing time and being organized helps in reducing workload
Increase organization and structure and then actually follow the plan that is established.
