Download the supporting PDF file for this episode http://bit.ly/cnzReG from the Learning to Teach Online project website.
Online classes are not bound by scheduled class times, and it can be very easy to spend too much time teaching and managing your students in this environment. This Learning to Teach Online http://bit.ly/d18ac5 episode highlights some important issues regarding managing your teaching time online. It examines some of the benefits and potential pitfalls of online teaching related to time, and offers some practical tips and suggestions on how teachers can make their online teaching more effective and productive.
Type of Material:
Presentation
Recommended Uses:
This material can be used for individual study or as part of an online teaching orientation. It would serve well as either a review for educators who already teach online or for prospective online educators.
Technical Requirements:
Must be able to download .pdf files and view online video.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
This site contains a video of teachers of online classes discussing how they most effectively use their time and also a .pdf file of strategies for better use of online teaching time.
Target Student Population:
Instructors starting online teaching or those who already teach online classes who have time management problems.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Mainly directed to present or future online teachers and administrators.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The use of both video and .pdf presents the material in an effective manner. The video contains interviews with online teachers that should be very useful to those considering making the transition to online, or those already teaching online looking for time management strategies.
Concerns:
None.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The material's strengths include its effective use of two methods of presentation - video and .pdf. The video is effective because it gives present online teachers a forum to share their tips and experiences of teaching online. The .pdf is effective because it collates online time teaching strategies into a single .pdf.
After viewing the video, online instructors should be able to use the tips to organize their day around their teaching responsibilities.
Concerns:
None.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Easy to use if you can download a .pdf file and view an online video. The presentation is in a conversational style with multiple online professors contributing.
Concerns:
None.
Creative Commons:
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