Olt201 Post 5 Integration
- What are the 2-3 most important concepts that have impacted your thoughts on student engagement and retention during this course?
Exploring the different models of learning that have been presented and the differences between them in terms of social presence. Specifically the differences between traditional vs online teaching is concerned. The categories of peer/peer, teacher/self and student/self and the interactions between these 3 groups or ‘objects’ from a teaching point of view and how the instructor can facilitated social interactions to support learning.
- Discuss your rationale for implementing 1 or 2 course facilitation strategies to increase student retention and engagement.
In the courses that I teach, the students are from all over Canada in different time zones, leading very busy lives where they are balancing work requirements (there are in a practicum setting), home life and school. And strategies that I can implement that help with course content facilitation and student engagement are so very important, as they navigate the balance of all of their responsibilities.
- Identify 2-3 specific goals that you would like to achieve in light of what you have learned about social presence and creating effective educational media;
- make sure that your goals areSMART,
- identify strategies you intend to use in order to meet your goals.
A goal would be to align all of my future correspondence to the SMART principles, as well as focus on highlighting initially the objectives that have brought everyone into the learning group/class to begin with, instead of the solely focusing on building relationships within the cohort.