Hi everyone,
I am a part-time Ed. M student in Instructional Technology and Media. I am also a full-time teacher in Long Island. I teach Mandarin Chinese to high school students. I use Moodle as online resources to my f2f classroom. I post handouts and files on Moodle. Students sometimes are required to do and turn in their assignments on Moodle.
Another online learning experience I had is that I once developed an online course on Moodle in a workshop. It teaches basic vocabulary, Chinese characters, and conversations about weather in Mandarin Chinese. It was an assignment, therefore, I didnt have a chance to test it out whether it works.
Here are some questions that make me interested in this course.
1) How to engage students in online learning environment? How do we measure it?
2) How to create effective virtual schooling? Designing activities, assignments, and assessments?
3) How do we incorporate cognitive learning style in virtual schooling instead of just presenting facts?
Great questions - I especially enjoy question 3 as I like to think of the cognitive aspects of teaching/learning.
ReplyDeleteI'm also really interested in new ways to measure and assess learning in online learning environments.
ReplyDeleteI think question number two is very important and I also found it to be an interesting one. How can we make virtual schools more effective? I think most online offerings focus on a lot of work to make up for lost time, but does this really help? I think that to some degree it does, but more tools are needed to expand and engage the student more actively in the class.
ReplyDeleteEffective is a key point since many of the educators I have bumped into, that are using online platforms, have had little training in web-pedagogy - and this is unfortunate. The experience is quite different than f-2-f, but the pedagogy as if it was f-2-f in many aspects.
ReplyDeleteI think more tools is not the key, but aligning effective affordances is where the answer rests.
I agree that more tools is not the key. Based on my own teaching experience, more tools sometimes let students to confusion.
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