Christopher Witt

Learning how to manage the different learning types of learners in an on line environment was quite helpful. Furthermore, responding to questions within 24 hours was good advice. 

I learned the differences in approaches and benefits of synchronous and asynchronous meetings and how to organize time and content for both. This was very

Projecting a strong competent presence through various methods is important in an on line learning environment. This helps earn the students trust and keeps them comfortable in the learning process.

As a new on-line instructor, I found the information about operating all of the learning platform functions important. I do need to spend the time to become proficient on this. If the students are using it I need to be able to help them for routine matters,

The part about attention span for lecture being 15 to i8 minutes was extremely valuable. I will plan to have some activities about every 20 minutes to keep the attention span optimized.

A good first impresion consisting of setting up the class of who I am as an instructor and a map of  how this class will help them reach their educational goals is a great start. 

My syllabus is already mostly in place, but this section re-affirmed I need to verify the objectives, schedule, resources and other elements properly align.  

Improving teaching effectiveness requires assessment of my current skill set. My skill set assesment definitely reveals a need to improve on-line learning skills. I will look at that when developing my plan.