Cecilia Cabrera

It is important on post secondary schools to hire faculty or instructors that meets the education, state and program requirements to teach the course. In addition, individual who are actively working in the field and has a big background of experience in the field that they will be teaching can bring in and share a lot of experience that is beneficial on the learning process of the students and at the same time help some of them understand the insdustry better and the expectation after they completed the program.

We are currently on the process of transitioning from a full on-ground to hybrid or blended program. So far, in regards to faculty performance consideration, it's almost the same as on-ground. There will be some learning curve. Everyone is new including myself so training is very important. Evaluation is next for everyone to know if they are meeting the requirements of an LMS teaching environment. The modification of the teaching environment due to some restrictions during the pandemic helped with the transition to both students and faculty. Everyone had a taste of a remote teaching and learning environment. 

Knowing and meeting the accreditation requirements is very important for an institution. Communicating these requirements to your team is very crucial. Success and failure relies on proper communication and meeting all the expectations and requirements to run your program.

Adjunct instructors who are current and actively working in the field can share important current information in an online learning education set-up.

I always knew how to deal with stress and anxiety however, dealing with it daily makes you forget and focus on the stressor, give in to what will make you feel more energized, easy and less task taking at the end of the day. Coffee, junk food and not doing anything after a long day of work. Which adds to your stress and anxiety. The Covid19 pandemic did not help and made it worse. This course reminded me that its time to refocus and re-assess the way I approach my team and my work. Good health is very important and… >>>

Student engagement using ISD. 

Same assessment method on ground with the addition of model answer and immediate feedback. Very useful and very helpful with the students' morale and immediate gratification from their hard work.

Online class is really the same as on-ground. Use of guest speaker, one on one training or tutoring and face to face whole class teaching.

Intellectual interaction with teachers and classmates is very important for the student taking online class. Old classroom setting is usually based only on learning the information but with online, students will be performing critical thinking and problem solving. They need to think more now and apply the information they learned to a scenario or situation. I like it.