It's week 13, a baker's dozen collection of facilitation articles and discussion posts. Through the readings in part three I've discovered I already use a great deal of "real life" authentic assessment in my f2f courses. Real life case studies and student assignments are key to my media courses. Undersanding and using new and emerging technologies are important to my student's education and I find analysis of "real ife" applications are crucial. They will also be incorporated in my new online designs. However, even though "real life" assignments are crucial to my student's training, traditional "testing" is also important for assessing knowledge. Most designs work best with a combination of both.
I discovered that diversity is important to your instructional design and facilitation, but it's not just a "black and white" issue. It's a combination of cultural sensitivity, disability accommodations, and even time zone considerations. As an instructor you must always be empathetic to the diversity in your course and make sure your facilitation requirements are attainable for all of your students. Meeting them where they are.
But I especially enjoyed the variety of facilitation issues the class discussed that will face every online instructor at some point in their teaching. From non participation, to discussion post hostility and plagiarism, it was informative to share ideas with fellow classmates and hear how each would handle the various situations. Many had confronted these issues in current classes either as students or instructors. The discussion of past and current facilitation cases educated us all on a variety of approaches and solutions. Some lively interchanges occured, especially around hostile students and plagiarism issues. The student-student exchanges were excellent. It was encouraging hearing and sharing advice and wisdom.
As this course moves toward completion, I have gained valuable knowledge and insight in both online design and facilitation. I've started including my new knowledge in my course development and look forward to the next class in the ONTL certificate sequence.
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