Get Your Students Hired
I will be working with ELL students therefore I will need to work with them on proper grammer, spelling, and not using text lingo.
Make myself visible online and be willing to find the best ways to communicate with all learners.
I found the first part of this section to perpetuate several stereotypes.
Students need several skills in order to be successful in an online class.
What students really need in ordrer to be successful in any online course or in life in general is to be self movtivated, self disiplined and have great time management skills as well as a need to have great communication skills.
The online teacher sets to tone for the class and encourages the students students through guidelines of clear communication. Understand that instructors my outline proper commincation, model proper communication as well as facilitate proper communication with timely feedback. It is a skill that is to be modeled and taught as part of the course.
Understanding characteristics of each generation will help facilitate instructor-to-student (I2S), student-to-instructor (S2I), and student-to-student (S2S) communication. An understanding of these characteristics also helps build community in the course, as well as facilitate effective communication in the workplace.
This information will assist with differentiated instruction in which instructors need to understand where their students are "coming from", to be able to help them achieve the learning outcomes/objectives.
Instructors need to develop communication guidelines when considering these generational differences.
i feel if a communication mishap happens, try to have a private message with the students, to help ensure the student feels comfortable and moves forward with online communicztion.
I am a baby boomer. It is always a good review for me to read about the other generations and their common views and characteristics. It remonds me that common sense or common courtesy is defined diffentently by the other generations.
In another module I read a comment that resonated with me. That is: The instructor must remember to facilitate, not dominate, the communication process. In my view, instructors who are facilitators and dominators are most effective. My goal is to develop and maintain the skills and knowledge to be able to be a good facilitor.
I learned with online learning, miscommunication can occur. To help minimize misunderstandings, it is important for the instructor to inidividualize thier mode of communication to each students.
Open mindedness, self-motivaton, self-discipline, time management, computer competency, critical thinking and teamwork are what students require to be successful in online learning.
Most students in online classes already need to be good communicators and good with time management and have strong executive functioning skills. Online courses may be more convenient, but they are not, generally speaking, easier. Make clear if you can up front what the time commitment from the course is expected to be. Then students need to find a way to carve out that time from their own schedules.
It is important to think about learners in two respects: age and learning styles. Helping students feel comfortable in the learning process will greatly increase their likelihood of success.
Students really need to e self movtivated, self disipline and have great time management skills to be successful.
In order for students to be successful in an online course they will need open mindedness, self-motivaton, self-discipline, time management, computer competency, critical thinking and teamwork.
This chapter discussed further the importance of communication. It exanded into the different learning/communication style of different generations of people. Depending on the group you are instructing, you may have to adapt, and or combine communication styles. Communications should be clear and concise from the instructor. sometimes things such as sarcasm, and or joking remarks are tkane literal and can easily offend someone.
Rules of communication must be provided upfront. Show examples of good and poor communication and always use good communication skills.
Communicating with Students --> Helping Students Communicate Effectively Online
One more piece to the puzzle, is being aware of your generational group within your class. Being clear on your syllabus to explain how communication will be facilitated among students and evryone being held to the same standards.
Engagement is one of the hardest skills in online instrcutor. I learned in this course healthy community is inviting and facilitating is the key.
The best guide in having an effective communication process, keeping students engaged and having a healthy online community is always doing (saying and writing) unto others as you would want them do unto you.
I have learnt about the different generations, their strenghts, weakness and best ways to ensure effective communication with all of them. I have learnt ways of engaging students in an online environment, challenges and how to assist students to become successful online learners.
My take from this course is a new insight into the differences between the way the different generations communicate which can be a challenge, but , the difference can be useful in enhancing engagement, effective communication , safe community and learning inan online environment.