Posts Tagged ‘online learning experience’
August 5 - Providing Multiple Paths for Learning
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
Students come to an online course with different interests, prior knowledge, and preferred learning styles. This is something that Stephen Holland, chair of the English department at Muscatine Community College and online learning and training associate at the Eastern Iowa Community College District, takes into account whenever he creates or seeks to improve an online course.
February 25 - Teaching with Technology: A More Meaningful Learning Experience Starts with Two Simple Questions
By: Amber Dailey, PhD, B. Jean Mandernach, PhD, and Emily Donnelli in Effective Teaching Strategies
We are bombarded with information about online course supplements and the newest interactive multimedia components, all touted as the best approach to engage today’s learners in the online environment. Dedicated practitioners puzzle over how, when, and where to incorporate multimedia within their online courses and further agonize over the potential effects of choosing not to do so.
January 22 - Online Course Quality Assurance: Using Evaluations and Surveys to Improve Online Teaching and Learning
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Online Education
In order to improve online programs, courses, and instruction, you have to first determine your goals, select metrics that will tell you what we want to know, analyze these metrics for clues about needed changes, and then make those changes. It may sound simple, but it isn’t.
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.
March 5 - Usability Issues That Impact Online Learning
By: Patti Shank, PhD, CPT in Distance Learning Administration, Instructional Design, Online Education
Despite the benefits of online education, there are inevitable frustrations as well. The tools online learners need to use take time to master and don’t always behave in intuitive ways. Waiting for a response to a question, work from another learner on a collaborative project, or feedback on an assignment also can be terribly frustrating.
February 17 - Four Tips for Better Online Instruction
By: Rob Kelly in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
In course evaluations, 90 percent of the students in John Thompson’s graduate-level education courses at the University of San Diego indicated that the online learning experience was as good as or better than the traditional classroom and 91 percent would take another online course.
