Get Your Students Hired
The biggest challenge I find is getting the students to be active in their learning process. So many of them want the information spewed to them just so they can pass a test and move to the next assignment. I teach Administrative Office courses and they require the students to actually produce documents for grading. Students complain I am giving them too many assignments but if they don't complete several assignments then they are not truly learning the art of document formatting.
Provid9ingf online learning is probably more cumbersome than inperson learning. The instructor really needs to know their students and their backgrounds.
I teach a hybrid class which involves student directed learning and in classroom. Next semester I intend to modify the course to include Zoom sessions during our remote weeks. I like the idea of using polls. It is not a very user friendly service with Zoom, but a good option to see what everyone thought of the class session or what the take aways were.
This course emphasizes the importance of preparation. Active learning is possible in asynchronous time as well as synchronously. Effort leads to results, good reminder.
There are many active learning activities that can promote student engagement in the learning process. The key, however, is to encourage full student engagement to participate, interact, and promote new ideas and projects so that their own learning can be fully realized.
Students must be fully engaged in their learning. They must want to put forth an effort
Active participation in a training is essential for student understanding. Sitting back and not actively participating does not good in overall learning.
I absolutely disagree that it's not much more difficult to engage students online than in a classroom. There is no physical presence. Our university does not mandate Zoom participation. When I was in the classroom I learned much about the students - before and after class and during breaks. There is no equivalent online.
Active learning involves pulling the students in for participation n the learning process.
Active learning is REAL learning, where the learner is involved with the content, not just passively absorbing (or more likely NOT absorbing) information
Our online class are geared to the student self learning. I know I am constantly tellinbg the students the are in charge of their own learning and expect them to be active in the course. Their participation makes the course successful.
I learned that active learning should be not judged by the teachers to the students because there are a lot of ways to evaluate the students if they are learning with the class. I doesn't mean they might not be participating, it does not mean they are not actively learning.
Each student has a different way of actively learning. Students can still be engaged even without saying anything. This means students have different learning styles.
I love learning online because it is learning at the comfort of your home, where you cannot spend time outside exposing risk of the pandemic and at the same time learning is still ongoing.
Having just completed some eight MK courses, this course changed the format and consistency and design layout of the prior eight courses, which seems to be a deviation from what was touted in prior courses as consistency in design. I for one did not enjoy or appreciate the change.
It's important to design rubrics with active learning in mind taking into consideration the quality of students' responses as well as logical reasoning and by measuring how they apply information and ideas.
The discussion of "Does eating an apple or drawing an apple teach you more about its texture" truly stood out to me. Of courde, eating the apple does. This is one reason why it is so impotant to fostor an envirnment of active learning when your student is in the classroom. Give them the opportunity to eat the apple!
Learning can take place eith equal rigor and engagement no matter the modality. It is critical that engagement is planned. I will engage in that planning moving forward.