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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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First Reflections about ECON 201, the Online Version
I just finished the first week in my first fully online course, which I’m teaching in parallel with the same course in a traditional, face-to-face environment. I blogged about the planning process intermittently, but I want to be more systematic … Continue reading
Response to the Reviewers of My Online Course Proposal
This summer I’ve put a great deal of time into developing my first online course, which is part of the UMW Online Learning Initiative. The Initiative is among the most extraordinary faculty development opportunities I’ve participated in. The last step … Continue reading
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The “Game” of School
The “game” of school played by faculty and students claims to be about learning, but in truth it’s about grades, credits and filtering. The students fully understand this; that’s why they behave as they do in our courses. (Sannier made … Continue reading