I think understanding the definition of equity really helps us meet each student where they are. Helping students reach their goals is of utmost importance.

Utilizing a ruberic is a very helpful tool that helps lay the groundwork for expectations of behavior and participation in the class, and provides specific details about the assignment(s).  The ruberic also helps the professor provide a fair grading system that makes it easy to defend in my opinion, because its all written out in the ruberic.  I also learned the term netiquette.  I had never heard it used before.  I will now use this terminology too when addressing online presence.

I learned about the different age groups and how we all communicate a little differently based on our life experiences with technology and life events.  Because we have these differences, it's important to understand how to connect with students in each age group to be effective at helping them have success in the classroom rather in-person or online.

It is important to have clear and detailed communication from all parties (I2S, S2I and S2S).  Having a detailed outline and using a tool such as a ruberic really helps provide a resource that allows others to check their progress as they move through the assignment to ensure they are not missing any pieces of important information.

The importance of having an online community is critical for students. The community can work together and give feedback as well. It a great way to build a team relationship as well.

Technology is amazing, so much can be done with easy of convenience. Students can navigate form some many different sources. I would like to see more videos learning, just to interact with students. Many professors only know students by name and not face and vice versa. Sad world, however a lifestyle of the new gen.

Living in a technology world, I think students has to be engaged and be interactive  in tech world. However, it is crucial that  the on ground learning still stands. While with some career we can do the online/tech thing, it does not work for all programs. Medical institutions must make sure they offered on ground hands on learning for their students as well as a significant amount of technological classes to well prepared their students for a medical career.

It is important as instructors to remain professional when interacting in an online system. Being mind full of the tone of the email and not responding in an impolite way even if a sender of an email reacts in that way.

As instructors, our actions must be louder than our words. I was given the brave opportunity to run the education department, where the campus was loosing a lot of students. After, getting to know each student as an individual, I concluded that, faculty not just instructors, but all of us that are involved in students success were louder in words and our actions failed our students tremendously. I built a Team focusing on student success throughout the campus and we watched our population grow, not only we bought in new students and kept  our current students, we created a happy,… >>>

I learned that instructors are now utilizing social media platforms as tools to help with teaching and engaging students.  I think that's pretty cool since most students are familiar with the different social media platforms and are probably well versed on how things work.  I would imagine these options keep the learning process interesting.