Author Archives: sgreenla
Quantitative Analysis of ECON201Online
You may recall from my earlier posts that I was concerned that students were learning substantially less in my online course than the parallel face-to-face course. The difference in final exam scores was one full letter grade! My hypothesis was … Continue reading
Why take #DS106?
I’ve decided to embark on the roadtrip called DS106. This week as I’ve pondered my discussion, I joined the twitter conversation about this iteration of the course. To get my feet wet, I tweeted: @sgreenla: Wondering whether I have the … Continue reading
Qualitative Analysis of Econ201online
Last semester (as readers of this blog know), I taught my first fully online course, Principles of Macroeconomics. I also taught a second section in my traditional face-to-face mode. As part of the assessment of my online course, I asked … Continue reading
Online Teaching & Learning: It’s harder than it looks
It has been said that no plan survives first contact and that has certainly been my experience teaching online this semester. I thought I was well prepared to teach this course, as well prepared as anyone can be who has … Continue reading
Video Clips for the Online Course
The online course seemed to do worse again on the second midterm, especially on the analytical parts. I decided that I really needed to video record my class lectures on analytical topics. I tracked down the equipment and recorded nearly … Continue reading
Reflection at Midterm Time
[The following are late posts from this past semester] At mid-semester after I’ve returned the first exam I feel more disconnected from my online students than my face-to-face ones. The online class seemed to do worse on the exam; many … Continue reading
Addendum
After I wrote the last post, I found I keep thinking about some of the concerns I raised there. The advantage of presenting analytic material in class (in my interactive lecture sort of way) is that I get a read … Continue reading
Week 4 Report on my online course
Last week I was distracted by other things, so it was ironic that we began the first seriously analytical topic in my course: the theory of supply & demand. This was one of the two topics I knew in advance … Continue reading
Week 3 Report on my online course
This was a transition week as wrapped up Topic 1 and moved on to Topic 2. The last step for Topic 1 was that I divided the class into groups of three students, and each group had the responsibility of … Continue reading
Second Week Report on my online course
This week was harder than week one. I’m still spending as much as twice the time in prepping and teaching my face-to-face section in my online section. I’m hoping this will diminish once we get up to speed. One lesson … Continue reading
