Posts Tagged ‘online classroom’
April 11 - Reciprocal Feedback in the Online Classroom
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Understanding learners’ experiences in the online classroom can help you improve your courses for current and future students and help build a strong learning community. Jill Schiefelbein, owner of Impromptu Guru, a company focused on helping individuals and groups improve communication in both face-to-face and online environments, recommends using a reciprocal feedback process to elicit this valuable information from students.
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:
February 4 - Tips for Online Instructors: Managing Files, Feedback, and Workload
By: Eileen F. Schiffer, PhD in Online Education
Teaching online is a rewarding experience; but any instructor who makes the transition to online education, thinking it will be easier and less time-consuming than face-to-face classroom teaching, is in for a big surprise! Establishing a regular presence in the online classroom, grading assignments and discussions, and maintaining records and notes from term to term are all time consuming – but essential – tasks. Learning to take care of the details of online teaching more efficiently makes it possible to be more effective in your teaching. The following is an abbreviated version of guidance I provide to new instructors about ways to keep their course files organized, students engaged, and workload manageable.
September 26 - Managing Instructor Presence in the Online Classroom
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Teaching is a knowledge business – but it’s also a relationship business. To teach students, you have to reach them. That can be a big challenge in the online classroom. So how do you project yourself, and develop the teacher-student connections that facilitate learning? Dr. Lawrence Ragan and Dr. Kimberly Eke, two of the most respected figures in distance learning, will share strategies for doing just that.
September 17 - The Top 10 Faculty Challenges for Teaching Online
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Issues such as time and workload management, quality assurance, and the need for new skills and competencies remain real or perceived barriers for faculty who are new to teaching online. Join Lawrence Ragan of Penn State’s World Campus as he shares his observations, stories, and insights regarding where faculty struggle in the online classroom, and what can be done to help.
April 23 - How Should I Manage My Online Course?
By: Mary Bart in 20 Minute Mentor, Teaching Online
Managing the workload of an online course can be challenging. Learn how to stay organized, manage your workload, and keep your students working toward the learning goals.
March 15 - Balancing Act: Managing Instructor Presence and Workload When Creating an Interactive Community of Learners
By: Tammy Stuart Peery and Samantha Streamer Veneruso in Online Education
Increasingly, online educators are faced with two key directives that are critical for student success and retention: increasing instructor presence and building a community of learners.
August 25 - Helping Online Students Connect with Business Leaders
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Providing students with mentors can be an effective way for students to learn directly from experts in real-world situations. It’s a technique used widely in face-to-face courses, and it can work in online courses as well. Al Widman, professor of management and business administration at Berkeley College, has matched students with practitioner mentors in his online undergraduate non-profit management course.
August 10 - Using Synchronous Tools to Build Community in the Asynchronous Online Classroom
By: Michelle Kosalka in Asynchronous Learning and Trends
Sometimes students in the online environment just need that extra nudge to feel connected in order to truly excel. As instructors, we can facilitate community-building in an asynchronous environment by utilizing synchronous tools, such as Wimba, Skype, Elluminate, and others available to us via our learning management system or outside of the LMS.
March 14 - Fostering Student Interaction in the Online Classroom
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
When you first start teaching online, there’s the temptation to put on your Superman cape and try be ultra responsive and ever-present. So intent on ensuring that each and every student has a successful learning experience in your class, you answer student emails at any hour of the day or night, respond to every discussion board post, and design elaborate assignments that take advantage of all the latest technology tools available.
