| | I'm taking an online class this summer.
We do assignments from the book, turn them in and get a grade as well as a quick note if we have an error, and we have discussions.
There are a couple of really lively, engaged people in the discussions. If I were the instructor, I would consider paying them to take my course every term. Apart from these two, who keep the conversations going, the comments are mostly, "I'm stuck! I'm stressed! I'm confused!"
There are lots of questions I'd ask if it were a face to face course which I don't bring up online. Since I'm comfortable with the topic and have some background, I'm doing fine. It's a lot like learning on your own from a book, except that the grades provide accountability, and you have someone you can ask questions of without feeling like you're pestering them.
The instructor for this class set up the discussion questions better than I did when I taught my first online course last year, and I plan to copy her shamelessly in the fall. However, I am quite sure that I would learn more in a classroom, where there would be more feedback and I could see things being done, in addition to doing the homework. It seems to me that the online class is just the homework, without the class.
That's how I felt about the class I taught online in the spring. It seemed as though the students just didn't make the progress they should have. With current technology, this shouldn't happen. Maybe we're all doing it wrong
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| | Posted 6/16/2009 9:16 AM - 22 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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