Professional development is important even for online teachers
Make a regular schedule for formative assessment by studentds regrding your course material, and implement changes within 1-2 weeks. Keep history of all changes, and save all learning objects in a library in case you need to add them to another course.
PD is important. Also making adjustments when needed
I feel the idea of an object library where you can store older materials and courses for future reuse if needed is a good thing.
I particularly appreciated the section on professional development. I am becoming increasingly interested in doing online teaching and the area that I most want more training in is the technology tools. This is the area where I need to be much more comfortable.
Develop a plan for course revisions that works for them and collect the appropriate data to ensure they are making
the right revisions. Its an ongoing process that must be thought out. The learning outcome is the overall objective of online learning.
That an important WLMS is the development of a course repository which consists of a course history and a library of learning objects, aka reusable items.
Plan, assess, and dynamic are all needed to upgrade a course and keep it fun for all involved.
I also like the ideal of formative evaluations every 3-5 weeks, although I have only done them once persemester.this management strategy is very important brcause it will eliminate many of the obectives teaching tha it is not student centered information.
When making a plan for course revisions, you must understand the course development cycle. In the course development cycle, the course revision process is a key component.
Keep an open mind about updating content.
Updating online content is a necessaryevilo if you want your courses to make your students successful!
Being able to make changes to a syllabus, or having a dynamic syllabus, managing dynamic elements (and their respective links and / or websites) along with a myriad of course revisions and updates (much or all of this executed in software) stored in some type of "course repository" in case the changes need to be "backed up" or "undone" is a great policy to have at the individual online teacher / course level.
Course evaluations should not be completed only at the end of the course. They should be implemented every three tio five weeks.
An online course is a process of teaching that changes quite often. Instructors have to be flexible and understand that they are continually learning from the assessments whether formative or sumative. Information should be used to better the course for both the instructor and the student.
Just as with a F2F course the onlne course can be dynamic. This quality ehances learnng and student engagement.
Professional development will provide updates and give the techers new stratagies needed to succeed. The student success rate and the understanding the students have to work sucessfully online is the goal.
It is very important to contNiue doing professional development. Making sure to have a course history and adequate backups.
In order to provide an engaging online learning environment, teachers should be willing and able to conduct fomrative and summative course evaluations and revisions.
I would use the Stop, Start, Continue evaluation to ensure my students had the most beneficial and least frustrating learning environment that I could provide.
Use the stop, start and continue evaluation every few weeks or end of each course. Make the evalation anonymous so you can get better results.
