I am motivated to learn how to teach online in part because of the trends in online education reported by Allen and Seeman (2013) in Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States. They reported that online education is a strategic priority for almost 70% of academic institutions, increasingly students are …
Category: EFOT14
Jun 30
Optional M1 Reflection Post
Feel free to respond to any/all of these question prompts: How are you feeling about EFOT in general? How did the video tutorials reinforce the M1 activities? What did you think about Zaption, the interactive video software? How was using VoiceThread to begin to connect with one another? What are your thoughts about using VoiceThread …
Jun 30
Motivations and challenges for online teaching
I confess that my motivations for teaching online are mostly external–we have a new degree program that offers online learning, and half of the students concentrate in my area. However, given that it’s now a “fact of life,” I find it an interesting challenge to try and transfer some of what I do well in …
Jun 16
Hello EFOT Learners!
Welcome to the world of blogging. We will use Scholarblogs periodically throughout our course to reflect and synthesize theory and practice of online teaching and learning. This course is focused on your growth as an online learner, even though you’ll be eventually in the instructor role, if you aren’t already. I’ll do my very best …
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