Posts Tagged ‘manage you online classroom’
February 5 - For a Successful Online Teaching and Learning Experience: Communicate
By: Lawrence Ragan, PhD. in Distance Learning Administration
Regardless of the size of course enrollments, the key to a successful teaching and learning experience for both the learner and instructor is communication. Clearly defining and communicating the expectations will address the uncertainly of what role and responsibility is required of each participant.
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.
December 1 - Keep Your Classes on Track During the Holidays
By: Errol Craig Sull in Distance Learning Administration
This time of year is always one of the most difficult times for students to focus on their studies. In the online classroom it can be an especially challenging to keep students engaged, serious, and committed to assignments and deadlines. For while students in the face-to-face classroom know they must be in X classroom on Y days at Z time each week—no matter the month—the casual setup of the online classroom can bust wide open if not addressed during these holiday months.
August 7 - Travel Tips for Online Instructors
By: Errol Craig Sull in Distance Learning Administration
Well, it’s that time again: summertime, and thus more online instructors are on the road and that means your indispensible umbilical cord to the classroom will also be coming: the laptop. For the class and its students can’t be left alone for too long; it and they need you, and thus your summer journeys hither
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.
Dr. Susan Ko is executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. The center is responsible for providing faculty development for more than 3,000 worldwide faculty, including administration of CTLA 201, the award-winning online teaching training course required for all UMUC faculty teaching online. Dr. Ko holds a doctorate from Yale University in Chinese language and literature and previously spent more than ten years teaching world literature, Asian studies, and humanities in the California State University system. Her teaching experience included both traditional classroom-based programs as well as distance education. She also spent more than five years working in the area of faculty development in the for-profit education sector and as a consultant to develop online teaching training programs before coming to UMUC.