Dive Summary:
- Even for seasoned educators, moving a traditional course online presents challenges, such as how to make sure students show up and how to keep students engaged.
- Two keys to making the transition: Make a calendar and stick to it, and keep communications short and timely.
- One important note on managing your workload: When it comes to navigating the course structure, let students help one another out, alleviating some of the flood of email into your inbox.
From the article:
... Even though the organization of your course makes sense to you, students may view it differently. As the first activity in your course, create a short orientation video using one of the programs mentioned above to show them how and where to find materials, calendars, quizzes, assignments, discussion boards, e-mail, announcements, drop boxes, etc. ...
