Make it Clear! Instructional Clarity in the Online Classroom - Jane Bartelmes
"No matter how expert, empathetic and enthusiastic an instructor is, instructional clarity is still necessary for motivating instruction; people seldom learn what they cannot understand"(Wlodkowski, 1999). Confusion creates anxiety and unnecessary stress which is motivationally distracting. Concerning the task of engaging and motivating students to learn, instructional clarity is a foundational place to begin. Specifically in the Angel classroom, course content including assignments have already been written and are in place. Nonetheless, there still room for online instructors to enhance instructional clarity. How can we as online instructors enhance instructional clarity? Specifically, in the Angel classroom there are at least three areas in which instructional clarity can be enhanced: weekly expectations, assignment instructions/clarifications, and student feedback.
Wlodkowski, R.J. (1999). Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Inc.
Presenter Information| Jane Bartelmes
| I have been an online instructor for GCU (COHS) since January 2008. Teaching for GCU has allowed me to marry my love for biology and teaching, with my passion for Christ. I was privileged in 2009 to assist in the rewriting of a general online biology course for GCU, and have recently joined the Instructor's Mentoring Program. I taught for approximately eight years in the traditional classroom for ACT College here in Northern VA. I hold a BS in Biology from George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia, and I am also registered medical technologist MT(ASCP). In 2007, I received a MEd-CRIN (Adult Education) with a minor in Human Biology, also from George Mason University. |
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