Feb 01
I’ve always loved teaching. Yet, I also know that expectations regarding the classroom (and my role as teacher) are changing. When I arrived at Emory some 20 years ago, I mostly made use of chalk on a blackboard and overhead projectors – with course packets of readings photocopied for the students. Those days are long …
Jan 13
The overwhelming majority of students who take my human physiology course intend to apply to medical school. In order to complete a medical school application, these students are asked to complete a number of academically challenging and time consuming prerequisite classes, score well on the MCAT, and at the same time juggle volunteer, shadowing, and …
Jan 05
Teaching in an online environment will allow me to stay current with the change in education, and compel me to adopt a more learner-centered pedagogy. The online course is also affording me the opportunity to develop materials for a more learner-centered pedagogy using state-of-the-art tools. This will benefit my in-classroom teaching as well. I anticipate …
Aug 15
UDL!! The Recognition Network: Learning about UDL has been liberating: I now know why to include images rather than just text in my PPTs (I thought they were unnecessary decoration or ‘cutesy’); why my colleague almost always includes a visual (screen) during a talk; why my screen now will have a great deal of white …
Aug 10
What a great learning module! As a teacher of Academic Writing to international students, we push, pull, struggle, cajole, train, scare, practice, practice, practice how to incorporate outside sources without plagiarizing…. But this new-found knowledge of OERs creates a new dimension to the training of using sources! I had heard of Creative Commons, but I …
Jul 05
When I reflect on the readings and question what motivates me to teach online, I think there is a basic justice issue that comes to the forefront. If my class is online, it could ultimately be offered to anyone regardless of location and social standing. In the traditional classroom, especially at a place like Emory, …
Jul 03
In their essay, “Teaching Time Investment: Does Online Really Take More Time than Face-to-Face? “ (http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/rt/printerFriendly/1190/2212, accessed June 27, 2014), Rebecca Van de Vord and Korolyn Pogue discuss the difficulty of trying to determine whether online teaching is more or less time intensive than conventional classroom teaching. They admit that variables for such an analysis …
Jul 01
Yes, it’s exciting to me: an online course will allow learners who cannot attend F2F courses to benefit from what we teach. Even if I design online learning modules (different from an entire course), this will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of F2F: it will free up time for more meaningful interactions and engagement with …
Jun 30
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 …
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