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Tips, Tools, and Techniques That can help students in a f2 f
- r online statistics class focus,
increase their productivity, and reduce their stress
Professor New Mexico State University-Dona Ana Com m unity College
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Tips for face to face and online courses
- 1. Students learn best when they are provided
with diverse teaching and learning tools:
- Handouts help students to
do things by hand.
- Excel, graphing calculators
and StatCrunch software help Students visualize difficult stat concepts.
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Tips for face to face and online courses
- 2. Students learn best when
they are provided with diverse teaching and learning tools:
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Tips for face to face and online courses
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Tips for face to face and online courses
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Tips for face to face and online courses
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Tips for face to face and online courses
- 3. Students learn best when they are engaged in
real-life examples.
Daily lives.
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Tips for face to face and online courses
- 4. Provide students with supplementary
instruction such as videos
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Tips for online courses
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Tip #1. Syllabus: should convey comprehensive information that students need throughout the semester.
SLIDE 12 Why? Online students do not have the same
questions about the syllabus as compared to Face- to-Face students
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Tip #2: Contact: Guidance, different modes, positive tone Emails Announcements Video and audio clips Discussion
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Examples: regular Announcements. respond to student email within 24 hours. provide meaningful feedback on assignments.
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Tip #3: Course and chapter Objectives: describe outcomes that are measurable
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Tip #3: Course and chapter Objectives: Align with instructional materials, learning activities and assessments
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Tip #3: Course and chapter Objectives: Objectives and content are Appropriate to type and level of the course.
SLIDE 19 Taxonomies can be used to write the
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Tip #4: Module 0: Show up and be present Welcome students. Set clear expectations. Encourage students to interact.
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In Module 0: Instructions how to get started. the purpose and structure of the course. Technology requirements.
SLIDE 22 Students introduce themselves 1.introduce yourself name, nickname
- 2. Major
- 3. expectations.
- 4. hobbies
- 5. Respond to at least
- ne post.
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Tip #5: Overcome technology anxiety Support and Troubleshoot Links to technology supports
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Course navigation is easy to follow
SLIDE 26 Tip #6: Interaction: create activities and assignments that cause students to interact with you and with each other.
- a. Discussion.
- b. Peer review
- c. Team assignments.
- d. Frequent feedback on
assignments
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SLIDE 28 “The ability to establish presence is closely connected to the ability of the instructor to create a sense of community among learners in an online course
Palloff & Pratt, The Excellent Online Instructor, 2011)
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Tip #7: Instructional materials: Instructional materials are in place before the start of the term. Current Variety
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different types of media to deliver content. Current and up to date
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Tip #8: Assessments: Diverse assessments. Frequent short tests are better than infrequent long ones
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everyone: links, videos, tables are easy to access
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Consistent layout Links easy-to-understand Easy navigation PDFs is selectable and searchable. Video captions/transcripts
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Contact Information
Professor New Mexico State University-Dona Ana Community College aahmad@nmsu.edu Twitter @AliAhmad78221612
