This is a video on some of the benefits and best practices online education.
Type of Material:
The activity is a video or tutorial related to discussion forums in online education.
Recommended Uses:
Recommended uses for this site could be a supplement to a lecture or to an online module. It is satisfactory for participants to watch the video independently or in a group. It can also be used by instructors who are planning their first online course.
Technical Requirements:
Any browser should work. The video is posted on YouTube.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The purpose of the site is to give online instructors an overview of the use of online asynchronous discussions as part of a large professional practice class for primary mathematics teachers.
Target Student Population:
The target population is the audiences that are involved in online education. Students at the college level who may be studying to be instructors will benefit from this activity.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Minimal skills are necessary. Learners only need to be able to play YouTube videos. Learners might also need to have some familiarity with the terminology surrounding online course or learning management systems to get a full understanding.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
The video provides skillful strategies for online teachers to be influential in their online courses. The video gave specific approaches such as getting students involved and how to set up discussion forums in online courses. The pacing and diction made the video easy to understand.
Concerns:
The video didn’t really address math communications in online courses. Instead, the information could be applicable cross-curricula. There were no references to research that demonstrate that the methodologies discussed actually work.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
An instructor can get a many suggestions on how to teach using online discussion forums.
Concerns:
It is unclear as to how the video can be tied into courses. For instance, prerequisite knowledge is not identified. Furthermore, the discussions are geared to primary math teachers and not the actual students. In the introduction, the spokeswoman seems be discussing videos and tutorials for purchase and the dialect may have been a little difficult to follow. Only the basic ideas of online teaching are discussed. The viewer may not get any new information from watching this video.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
The video is self-explanatory. Students only need to have access to a computer. There were visual examples of what the spokeswoman was suggesting in the tutorial.
Concerns:
Aside from the passive information provided in the video, the site lacked interactivity
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