October 13th,
One of the aspects of this online teaching and learning experience that has caught my attention is creating course content and learning activities that can connect people in the course to each other and to the instructor.
The issue of 'high tech-high touch' caught my attention. I have been rather pre-occupied with making the courses that I have taught very content and visually rich. I am wondering if I can increase the 'touch' component by improving ways to connect people beyond just the discussion boards and group assignments.
From my new knowledge and skills, I can say quite certainly that the horizon classroom and Wimba will help me to facilitate a more personal experience for students. I guess I would be termed a truly distance instructor for my Chicago based students.
After two years of running 2 courses 9 months out of the year, I am ready to step the courses up in the hope of caputuring the interest and motivation of students with more real time communications.
The reason that this has distrubed me somewhat is that beautiful presentation of really full content can fall flat if studetns are not engaged with each other and the instructor. All of the effort of creating a nice looking course is lost if students don't spend the time engaging with the material.
So I have learned to look at my courses in a different way--more student centered I suspect!
Helen
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