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Efficient communication in the virtual classroom is vital. Communication does not just involve sending messages but correcting and responding to students in timely fashion will enhance the learning environment. There is nothing like an instructor that communicates with their students daily. Keeping the line of communication open will help students gain control over their learning enviroment.
Strategies that should be implemented for collaboration include building strong group interdependence. The strategies focused on ways to give students' responsibility and input into the learning process.
Students need much more support and feedback in the online environment than in a traditional course.
Feedback in the form of discriptive comments, thanking students for their comments, providing extensive feedback,
encourges critical thinking.
It's really important to give private, weekly feedback to each learner regarding his or her grade.
Encourage collaboration, keeps groups small 6 or less, let the students lead, and do not interact too much while providing the needed feedback.
I like the idea of giving private feedback to each student every week concerning their grade. However, with my large number of online students, it may be more feasible to do this every two weeks instead.
Not being no face to face interaction with students need much more support and feedback in the online environment than in a traditional course.
Standards of communication are important. Avoid using all caps as it is considered yelling. All lowercase is considered mumbling.
Instructors need to set the guidelines, bourdreis and the example of communicaiton. We don't have to be the everything, just the consistent and timely.
That students need more feedback and support in an online course because there's no F2F and how important it is to be present in the online course. I will make sure that i connect with the students and be present.
A teacher must create professional norms in the online course and model them as the administrator. Encourage a community in the course and small-group and peer reviews will help build relationships in the class and prevent the instructor from having to be the ony source of information and answers to questions.
Instructors need to be involved in their courses frequently and richly. Students know the difference between an instructor commenting briefly to one interacting daily. Touch base with students frequently (weekly or even more often) will make the student that they are not alone.
How you handle student communications is vital to the success of the course. Let students have their conversations, but ensure you re only askingthe open ended questions, not monitoring every response. Students need to be guided, but given flexibility. Emails are for supplying information about the structure of the course. Discussion boards should contain more substantive material related to the coursework.
Knowing your students will netter help the instructor plan for the cours as far as communication and effective time mamnagement.
Workload Management Strategies for Teaching Online --> WLMS for Communicating and Collaborating
The use of effective feedback strategies will allow you as the instructor to identify and meet student needs, as well as provide encouragement for engagement.
Instructor's presence, communication and feedback is very important in an online environment as these are what students rely on, without which they would feel aliniated and lonely instead of safe and comfortable.
Section is about effective communication, managing workload resulting from student communications, setting boundaries, constructive /prompt/efficient/continous feedback and the instructor's role as a collaborator.
I will have projects which require collaboration, choice, initiative, control and presentation to help students develop critical thinking skills, team work and be able to learn how they would solve authentic world problems.