Online Teaching Is Not the Same as In Class Teaching. Discuss.
Over the past 5 years I have taken a total of 10 (ten) online graduate courses through Purdue University Northwest, Indiana Wesleyan, and Indiana University all in an effort to be meet the Higher Learning Commission's criteria to teach dual credit courses. The course design has been similar for each. Students login to some learning management system, get the assignments, work on them, submit them, etc. There is one element of course design, however, that has been the most beneficial for both myself and the other students in the class; online discussion. Not every course I took had online discussions, but the ones that did were the most engaging. Inserted from GIPHY The way the online discussions would work is each week the students and the professor would engage in online discussion about the assignments for that week. The questions would be posted, someone would reply with an idea of how to start, others would offer criticism or support, or continue with the next step. Everyone wo