Get Your Students Hired
Be sure to create an effective environment by being a good instructor by developing a teaching presence, social presence, and establish a response time for your students even if they do not ask questions continue communication is the key to online success.
With only 4 years of F2F education in the roughly 11 years of my higher education experience as a student, I can relate to so much of what this content discusses. From the other side of the screen, now having taught a fairly good number of mediated courses, I can relate to the challenges of instructors. I think that the challenges of mediated education actually draw out (exasperate) issues that exist but are accommodated for and ignored in the F2F classroom. From many conversations with students I have heard stories of grades not being posted, calls, and emails not being returned, the ambiguity of assignments unanswered. All of the excused by a culture of academia. These types of practices really need to be changed for the success of the mediated classroom.
While its important to five frequent, consostent feedback, the instructor should not respond to each student's post. They need to be able to discuss freely among themselves. My role is to mintor and steer in right direction. Could post a group feedback response.
The amount of feedback given to a student in an online environment is critical because they can feel neglected
I learned about thecommunication standards for communicating with my students. Also the information on feedbac k is very important.
Feedback is crticial when teaching online. Students needs to have interaction with content, teachers and other students.
Online teaching requires you to interact and communicate with students in different ways then in F2F teaching. There are different ways in communicating with students online S2C, S2I, and S2S. Online Instructors must also establish communication boundaries.
not being face to face interaction with students needs much more support and feedback in the online enviroment than in a traditional course.
When giving feedback it is important to be clear and direct. It is also important for the students to understand that feedback goes bothways.
I will strive to get to know my students as that will help me to know how to best communicate with them. Some students soar at written communication while others require a different communication mode which is possible with today's technology.
There are three types of communication within an online classroom. They are:
Students online need more interaction and I will do more interaction and set boundries for all assignments and online experience
The online environment does create challenges when it comes to communication since it takes away things like facial response and spontanuity.
Online education relies more on the written feedback than an actual conversation face to face. Social presence is very limited. A Zoom classroom will help with audio and visual feedback. Instructors should communicate with students on a regular basis. Communication should also have boundries.
What I like to do when commenting on discussions is to not only include the response to that student, but also make more gerneralized comments to encourage others to read and interact. Might spark more conversations.