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OfflineHere is a Great Tool to Help add Spiritual Aspects into your Online Classroom!!
As a full time online faculty member in the College of Theology, I get many questions about how can instructors make the spiritual values and Christian traditions of GCU more a part of their lives and more a part of their classrooms. As part of this process I am going to provide tools that will help the online instructors to have valuable information that they can use in their classroom setting. The goal is to help the instructor to be equipped to better answer questions or give the student’s tools to find answers to their questions. I would also like to provide our instructors with resources that will help them feel better equipped to do these types of things on their own.
As a full time online faculty member in the College of Theology, I get many questions about how can instructors make the spiritual values and Christian traditions of GCU more a part of their lives and more a part of their classrooms. As part of this process I am going to provide tools that will help the online instructors to have valuable information that they can use in their classroom setting. The goal is to help the instructor to be equipped to better answer questions or give the student's…
How can we improve the learning process in introductory courses?
I recently took part in a meeting of a small committee that will be working on reformulating some of the introductory courses here at GCU. Part of the reasons is to improve the rigor of the courses as well as help link the content with a given course to the next courses in the sequence. While everyone on the committee has some excellent ideas, the small number of individuals involved limits our idea capacity. Many companies have used "crowd sourcing" to help in the innovative and design process…
Many modern faculty rating systems rely on the evaluation of students and of a handful of observations. This article examines whether or not this system measures what we really want to gauge
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The results are mixed, but edifying and interesting.
There has been a rapid rise in the percentage of students taking online classes in the past decade. In 2002 1 in 10 college students was taking at least on online course, in 2010 1 in 3 college students was taking at least one online course (Allen, Seaman, Lederman, & Jaschik, 2012). Colleges and universities for many reasons have begun developing and implementing online programs to help meet this demand (Dykman, & Davis, 2008). Lost in this development, however, have been the…
OfflineHere is a quick tool to get honest feedback from your peers, friends, and family in the area of leadership. In the business world there is a concept known as leadership 360 degree feedback. This is a way for you to get authentic and genuine feedback from your closest friends. Just ask your friends to answer these simple questions and give you honest feedback and suggestions. You might be surprised by their responses and you might find areas of growth that you can work on as an individual.
Would you like to know how you are doing as a leader in your field? In the field of business there is a philosophy known as leadership 360 degree feedback. This is a way for people to get feedback from their closest peers, family, and friends to see how they are doing as a leader. I have compiled some questions that you can give to your peers. These are questions that I took from a recent survey that we took on our team. I am going to use this to assess how other people perceive my…
While the below article argues that there are many flaws with new programs that grade papers automatically, I wonder if there could be a way to use such technology in combination with the human teacher?
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What instructors can do to help the learning process
Regardless of the course, whether an introductory one or a capstone, I believe one of the primary objectives of instructors is to ensure that we pique our students' intellectual curiosity. By engaging students in the process of intellectual development, we can help ensure they leave our courses not only with the skills inherent in the material, but with a desire to expand their learning endeavors into new areas. This can help the student in two significant ways. The first being they can…
Why online instructors need different skill sets than ground-based instructors.
Teaching in the online realm requires instructors to exhibit many skill sets that extend beyond the skills needed in the traditional ground-based classroom. Although there are many similarities between the two delivery modalities, the complexities and nuances of the online environment necessitate instructors be skilled at functioning in the virtual classroom. There are many commonalities, however.
Online classrooms and ground-based classroom require classroom management skills, the ability to…
Online instructors at a Christian University recently met to discuss ways to improve student engagement in their discussion forums. One outcome of this meeting was that instructor posts could often be labeled as either student-centered or content-centered. This article attempts to define these two types of posts and discusses the value of both.
Recently a group of thirteen online instructors met to discuss issues related to student engagement in the discussion forums. This discussion led to defining the types of posts that instructors make. There was a general consensus that instructor posts could be categorized into two basic types: content-centered posts and student-centered posts.
As one might surmise by the name, content-centered posts are posts that an instructor makes to provide general clarity on the material being covered in…
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