A Series of Unfortunate Online Events

[Keith]

Colleagues--

We didn't get to touch on a lot of discussion points that I suspect
would have been of great interest during the first Webinar on 4/30.
Therefore, we invite you to pose questions, offer answers, ideas,
suggestions here as a continuation of that meeting.

For your reference here were the main questions posed:

1. What are some assumptions you have, or made in your first online
course?
2. What are some problems that you encountered or experienced in the
first few weeks of your online course?
3. What makes an ineffective online teaching and learning environment?
4. What percentage of your online course was complete on the first day
of your online course?
5. How do you completely design and set up an online course prior to
the first day of class, and accommodate for current events,
spontaneity, or the idiosyncratic needs of specific students in a
specific course?
6. Are you guilty of using a PowerPoint presentation that you use in
class to enhance your lecture in your online course without any
modifications for the online environment?
7. Online discussion is analogous to “class participation” in a F2F
classroom. T or F?
8. What are the characteristics of an online learning environment
devoid of any sense of class community?
9. How do you assess learning online authentically?
10. Is there anything that “works” in a F2F classroom that absolutely
does not in an online environment?

Also note that the PowerPoint slide deck and the accompanying
whitepaper have been uploaded to this site. You can access these from
the Home page or from the Files section.

Keith