Posted in ETEC 565 - Module 3 on Jun 28th, 2009 No Comments »
What is troubling Boris’ students? Reading the description of this week’s case, I think Boris needs to first investigate as to why students who do well on lab exercises cannot translate that level of competency onto unit tests. Depending on what the issue is, his solution can be drastically different. In my years of teaching […]
Posted in ETEC 565 - Module 3 on Jun 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication In choosing my communication tools for my LMS course site, I strive to use tools that are i) simple to use, and ii) offer significant pedagogical value to the course. From scholarly literature and my personal experience taking various online courses, I have settled into using “forum” and “chat” as my […]
Posted in ETEC 565 - Module 3 on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Some Easy Parameters for Trinh From reading the description of Trinh’s challenges, and having felt that disconnectedness in taking an online course, I think there are a couple of relative simple solutions for Trinh: E-mail: Because Trinh is delivering her museumology course via Vista, and Vista offers a “mail” feature for instructors, all Trinh needs […]
Posted in ETEC 565 - Module 3 on Jun 10th, 2009 No Comments »
My Four Prongs of Learning Anderson’s article describes four different attributes in learning. According to him, “good” learning occurs when the learning is learner-, knowledge-, assessment-, and community-centered. In my experience taking online courses both at the undergraduate and now at the graduate level, I notice that it is difficult for any particular course to […]