{"id":3969,"date":"2019-01-10T14:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2019-01-10T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:41:25","slug":"interactivity-in-online-graduate-courses-for-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2019\/01\/10\/interactivity-in-online-graduate-courses-for-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Online Graduate Courses for Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This semester I am teaching an online course in our fully online MEd in Science Education Cohort: http:\/\/pdce.educ.ubc.ca\/sced\/<\/a>. This is very exciting as my colleagues and I have been working for a long time to make our dream of having a graduate online science education cohort become a reality. I also have heard from my colleagues that the previous course went really well. So I am looking forward to teaching the course and getting to know the teachers!<\/p>\n

I have spent a lot of time preparing my online course for this cohort: Teaching Mathematics and Science through Technology. And now, as I am teaching it, I am trying to reflect on the challenges I face as an online instructor and think how I can overcome them and how I can make the next course even better. I am also trying to monitor my own time used for teaching this course: I record the time I spend on the course in an Excel sheet to know for myself how it goes. This will also help me to make sure that teaching two courses a term and doing research would be a doable task for me. The worst thing is to burn out and not to be able to enjoy teaching.<\/p>\n

While preparing, I found an interesting article about it “Online Teaching: 4 Unique Challenges and How to Solve Them<\/a>” by Karen Quevillon (from January 2018). So here is a brief summary of the challenges as she sees them (the papers suggests some solutions):<\/p>\n

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  1. Disengaged – passive students<\/li>\n
  2. Responding to students’ questions<\/li>\n
  3. Encouraging student collaboration<\/li>\n
  4. Technical difficulties<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I also decided to look online for professional development resources on online teaching. Here is one that I found useful. I think they give some practical suggestions and while I do not believe in the “best practice”, I do think that becoming familiar with some teaching ideas that others found useful is helpful:<\/p>\n\"YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This semester I am teaching an online course in our fully online MEd in Science Education Cohort: http:\/\/pdce.educ.ubc.ca\/sced\/. This is very exciting as my colleagues and I have been working for a long time to make our dream of having… Read moreTeaching Online Graduate Courses for Teachers<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6898,6899,795,6989,6981,4899,6900,31,236255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-simulations","category-data-collection-and-analysis-sensors","category-general","category-general-teaching","category-interactivity-in-the-classroom","category-outreach","category-overcoming-technology-barriers","category-personal","category-physics-education","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/3973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}