Posts Tagged ‘classroom management for online courses’
March 19 - Managing Controversy in the Online Classroom
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Controversy can erupt in any learning situation, and knowing how to manage it is an important skill for any instructor. Online instructors need to be aware of the following challenges when it comes to managing controversy:
August 9 - Get Your Online Course Off to a Good Start
By: Susan Biro, EdD in Online Education
The beginning of an online course is a critical time in which the instructor establishes expectations, sets the tone, and helps students navigate the course. Here are some points to consider for the time leading up to and including that first week:
December 28 - Seven Tips for Creating a Positive Online Learning Experience
By: Errol Craig Sull in Online Education
Here are a few tips to ensure your students have a positive online learning experience.
Personal introductions. By using the personal introductions of students, an instructor can get to know his/her students better, thus allowing interaction with individual students in a more personal manner. When students see that the instructor is reaching out to them on a personal basis, it helps establish a rapport and put the student at ease.
November 17 - Seven Easy Ways to Personalize Your Online Course
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
In order to be part of an effective learning community, online learners need to feel the presence of the instructor and fellow learners. Jane Dwyer, a senior lecturer at Rivier College, uses the following techniques to create this sense of social presence in her online psychology courses:
September 4 - Online Course Management: Overcoming the Challenges of “Anytime” Learning
By: Lawrence Ragan, PhD. in Online Education
Although the online classroom environment provides tremendous flexibility of time and place of study, establishing and communicating a course pace and pattern of work can aid both instructor and student, and alleviate confusion of course operation.
August 7 - 11 Strategies for Managing Your Online Courses
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Online Education
If you think the flexibility of online teaching also means that it’s OK to “wing it” now and then, you’d be wrong. If anything, you have to be more organized, more consistent and more prepared for anything than ever before.
April 27 - Classroom Management Tips for Online Courses: Dealing with Difficult Students
By: Mary Bart in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
“Managing student expectations is important in any class but even more so for online and blended courses where it’s easy for students to feel lost,” says Susan Ko, executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). “Even well structured, academically rigorous online classes can have diminished effectiveness due to a lack of clear expectations.”
March 18 - Classroom Management Issues in Online Courses: Tips on Mitigating Unwanted Behavior
By: Christopher Hill in Effective Classroom Management, Online Education
Problem students can create just as many classroom management issues in the online environment as they can in a traditional classroom, perhaps more. Last week in a live online seminar titled Managing Expectations and Handling Difficult Students Online, Dr. Susan Ko, executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Maryland University College, provided strategies for mitigating unwanted behavior in online courses. Below is an excerpt of an interview conducted in advance of the seminar.
January 22 - Managing Expectations and Handling Difficult Students Online
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
The online environment may look different, but the players are the same … including the difficult ones. Whatever the issue or level of disruption, you need to deal with it, because difficult students can undermine an online classroom as effectively as they can a traditional one. This seminar provides insight into the online classroom environment and how to stay in control of it.
