Classroom Communication
- Enhancing the Atmosphere of Your Online Classroom - Part II
The more comfortable your students are in your class, the more likely they are to learn. It is Dr. Sweeney's sincere hope that the ideas he's outlined in this article will be of some benefit to you. This is Part II of a two part series. In this article.
- Quality Conference Responses
One of the objectives each instructor in a master's program should have is to improve the student's writing skills. Dr. Harding shares some techniques he uses to help students achieve this goal.
- Ways to Halt Conference Participation - Know the consequences of your actions!
What is the best way to close a WebTycho conference discussion to student postings beyond a certain date? Here are some suggestions - and cautions - concerning managing conferences.
- Fostering a Student-Centric Classroom: Part II
Opening a dialog between all class members early and setting a pattern of drawing on students' own individual strengths can make a class more effective and more relevant to students.
- Effective Classroom Communication
Faculty often struggle to find the best method for encouraging meaningful discussion in face to face classrooms and online. Dr. Bouldin passes on some ideas that may help you to entice your students to participate in classroom discussions.
- Alternative Communication Modes for Real Time Student and Faculty Interaction
Although the anytime-anyplace convenience of asynchronous online learning holds great appeal for busy working adults, the voice chat provides a very powerful means of communication and can be a useful tool in the online classroom.
- The Importance of Conference Design in WebTycho
Most online instructors realize that academic rigor in an online course comes from a combination of scholarship, interaction,presentation, and the course syllabus itself. Often, however, a vital element in this enumeration tends to get left out-conference design.
- Online Participation as an Instrument of Learning and Assessment
Dr. Stella Porto discusses the goals and learning objectives of online discussions, the instructor's role in such interactions and provides insights, guidelines and examples of how to assess students' performance in online conferencing.
- A Perspective on Faculty-Student Communication for Distance Education
Considering the range and diversity of cultural, educational, and professional backgrounds of students in programs designed for working adults, how can faculty 'style' their written communication so that it is not only beneficial and motivating, but supports growth and well-being?
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