Hello Friends and Colleagues,
Mark your calendars and join the free 3-week (June 2-23, 2012) online course on facilitating online learning: http://www.wiziq.com/course/4264-teaching-online
Thank you.
Warm wishes,
Dr. N. Deutsch
This class will help you take home a billion dollar experience out of your public classes. We will discuss today how to master and win the art of taking public classes. Few things that we have learned overtime which have helped us take a flawless public class will be crashed open.
Can a teacher use the same teaching techniques in a face-to-face and an online course?
According to a study conducted by Park, Johnson, Vath, Kubitskey, & Fishman (2013) on Examining the Roles of the Facilitator in Online and Face-to-Face Professional Development Contexts (Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 21(2), 225-245), teachers need to cater to individual learners more online than face-to-face. In the face-to-face environments, students learn from each other and from the teacher. In the face-to-face class, the teacher is able to summarize the information for the students and get feedback from the students body language on how well they understood the information. In the online class, the teacher only knows whether the students understood or not from their writing. Teaching online requires that the teacher be very attentive and aware of the student's individual interests, needs, and level of understanding.