Posts Tagged ‘asynchronous online education’
April 25 - Creating a Sense of Time in Online Courses
By: Todd Conaway in Online Education
One of the most useful elements of online courses is that they’re available anytime. But along with the timelessness, there is also an absence of time in many activities and pieces of content in the course that can that can lead to feelings of disconnectedness. How closely do we connect actual time to our student’s online experiences?
September 28 - Online Teaching Challenge: Creating an Emotional Connection to Learning, part 1
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Learning research indicates that people learn better in the presence of some emotional connection—to the content or to other people. Creating this emotional connection is particularly challenging in the online classroom, where most communication is asynchronous and lacks many of the emotional cues of the face-to-face environment. Nevertheless, it is possible to do, with a learner-centered approach to teaching and a mastery of the technology that supports it, says Rick Van Sant, associate professor of education at Ferris State University.
May 4 - How Do Students Think Online Courses Compare?
By: Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti in Distance Learning Administration
In its early days web-based instruction was seen as a solution to a problem: students who were separated from campus either by geography or schedule would be able to take advantage of web-based instruction to get the training or degree they desired.
February 18 - Eight Ways to Increase Social Presence in Your Online Classes
By: Hong Wang, PhD. in Online Education
Social presence is an important concept in distance education. So, how can we increase social presence in online teaching? Here are some ideas for you to try.
October 19 - Understanding the Instructor’s Role in Facilitating Online Discussions
By: Michelle Everson, PhD. in Asynchronous Learning and Trends
In my classroom-based courses I have always valued discussion as a powerful learning tool that provides students with opportunities to explain their reasoning and understanding, learn different perspectives and points of view, and re-think and possibly revise their own conceptions based on careful reflection of potentially disparate viewpoints. As I prepared to teach my first online course five years ago, it was only natural that discussion would be a part of it.
July 4 - What’s the Future of Online Education?
By: Errol Craig Sull in Asynchronous Learning and Trends
To many students and would-be students who have yet to experience them, online colleges are sometimes viewed with a combination of suspicion and distrust—and occasional newspaper headlines talking about some CEO who, it was learned, received his or her advanced degree at an online “paper mill” do not help these impressions. And many in traditional academic institutions—including those who offer online courses—continue to quickly turn their noses up at online colleges, believing that any for-profit online college could not possibly offer the same quality education that they can.
