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TEACHING TIPS
 "Managing the work of students and your responses to them can be a challenge. I find that it works best to have a separate account for each course. For a given course all of my responses from students come into my account in the order that they were received. I do not file them until I respond. This way I do not waste time looking in each students folder when I am ready to respond"  Ed Meyen, University of Kansas elm@ukans.edu Jan 19 1999, Tuesday 11:45 CST "In the absence of a discussion on exams that often occurs when grades are handed back to students it is still important to provide feedback. One technique that works with essay exams is to return the exam questions along < br>with five or six plausible responses that would be acceptable. The responses need not be written as full answers but convey the essence of the point that you were looking for in responses" Ed Meyen, University of Kansas elm@ukans.edu Jan 19 1999, Tuesday 11:44 CST "Providing feedback to a student who has not responded to an activity correctly can be a little difficult without the non-verbal cues that typically accompany our communications with students under such circumstances. T ake a little more time to couch your feedback in a manner that is constructive. This may take a little longer then when reinforcing a student for good work" Ed Meyen, University of Kansas elm@ukans.edu Jan 19 1999, Tuesday 11:43 CST "If you notice some students are falling behind you can send a message to all students reporting where most students are in the course. This allows individual students to gauge their progress relative to other students" Ed Meyen, University of Kansas elm@ukans.edu Jan 19 1999, Tuesday 11:43 CST "Online instruction allows for self-pacing. However, there are many advantages to following the standard semester or quarter calendar when offering online courses. You can encourage steady progress by setting target dates as to where students should be in the course on specific dates" Ed Meyen, University of Kansas elm@ukans.edu Jan 19 1999, Tuesday 11:42 CST "Just as some students may have a compulsion to dominate discussions in class some may send you excessively long e-mail messages. One way to control this is to set word limits on responses to activities and/or to general messages" Ed Meyen, University of Kansas elm@ukans.edu Jan 19 1999, Tuesday 11:42 CST  |
