This past three week class has really opened up some new doors for me about teaching online. I had not thought about all the different components that go into teaching online before. I really am glad that I have had this opportunity. I hope that these ideas will carry over to my future teaching.
Overall I really felt that module two was probably the most useful for my future online teaching. The other two modules were very helpful and I will hopefully use what they learned. But I really appreciated the hands on opportunity that module two gave me with different tools for online teaching. I really enjoyed learning about all of those tools and how to use them correctly. I really think it is important to know how to use these tools correctly.
Module One was helpful because it reminded me of all the pitfalls that online teaching can have. I really appreciated seeing how a good online course should run versus an improperly made one. I think that it was really helpful to read about how to not teach online and how you should teach online.
Module Three gave a great insight to Moodle. I had not every used moodle as a teacher, so this was a new experience that I really appreciated. I also never realized how much you could do on moodle. I hope that I will be able to grow more familiar with the program in the future.
Online teaching may be a bit more work than I expected, but I can see why it is so useful. I also can see how we need to be careful with our online courses.
Alexa, I'm glad you could gain some insight into teaching online. I really hope that you will be able to translate some of this to a more black and white content course like statistics. I know it can be done, but it's a lot harder to have discussions on issues that may not be black and white when your course is seemingly about getting it right. Maybe I'm not that well versed in this area and you have all kinds of insights.
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