Posts Tagged ‘online courses’
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.
September 30 - Reaching Online Students with Learning Disabilities
By: Mary Bart in Online Education
Students with disabilities are drawn to online courses for many of the same reasons as everyone else, but it’s often the anonymity that makes learning online particularly attractive to someone who’s spent his or her life trying to mask a disability. For online instructors, this can present new issues. After all, it’s hard enough distinguishing
September 17 - Capturing Teachable Moments Online
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Sometimes a teachable moment is inspired by a flicker of intrinsic interest in a particular topic, sometimes by an authentic and immediate need. This seminar will teach you how to anticipate and capitalize on these teachable moments in your courses.
September 15 - A Modular Course Design Benefits Online Instructor and Students
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Andrea Henne, dean of online and distributed learning in the San Diego Community College District, recommends creating online courses composed of modules—discrete, self-contained learning experiences—and uses a course development method that specifies what to include in each module.
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 27 - 11 Tips for Setting the Tone in Your Online Course
By: Errol Craig Sull in Online Education
The cliché that you only get one chance to make a first impression is especially true when you teach online. Each item you post—email, discussion message, announcement, etc.—must be created with much thought, and none is more important than the first post to your class.
August 17 - Time Management Tips for Online Instructors
By: Kathryn Ley, PhD. in Online Education
Online instruction invariably requires more time for logistics than does face-to-face instruction due to interaction needs, extraneous cognitive load (mental effort needed to attend to non-content-related course elements), and poor self regulation by students.
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.
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
July 30 - Online Instructor Success: What’s It Take?
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Did you know that there are currently more than 100 specific competencies that have been determined to be instrumental for online teaching success. If distance education is a critical part of your school’s future or your personal career path, this is one seminar you don’t want to miss.
