September 1, 2010
Beware of the Big, Bad, Cyber Bully: What Faculty Can Do to Protect Their Students, Classroom, and Themselves
With the growth of online education comes the phenomenon known as the cyber bully. In this context cyber bullies are using online classrooms’ forums, bulletin boards, and chat rooms to inflict emotional pain on peers and more recently, faculty.
Fostering Collaboration in the Online Classroom
Glenda Hernandez Baca, professor/coordinator of teacher education at Montgomery College, Takoma Park Campus, encourages the use of collaborative learning throughout online courses. In an interview with Online Classroom, she offered the following ideas for facilitating collaborative learning in group projects and in threaded discussions.
Online Instructor as Group Counselor
Understanding and implementing group counseling techniques can help foster a supportive online learning environment, says Paula Christensen, associate professor of education at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. Christensen discovered this when she began teaching online and instinctively drew upon her group counseling skills. In an interview with Online Classroom, she explained how others might adopt some group counseling techniques to improve the online learning experiences.
Online Teaching Fundamentals: PowerPoint for Online Courses, Part 6: What Type of Chart or Graph?
A chart or graph typically presents data in a visual manner. When using charts and graphs, you want learners to quickly be able to make sense of them and not become frustrated or overwhelmed. Because it is quite easy to create charts in PowerPoint or bring them in from Excel without a lot of thought, we can too easily be careless about using them.
Teaching Online with Errol: On the Road with Your Computer—Part 1
Here is my third annual selection of computer apps, programs, utilities, and approaches to help make your online teaching experience more productive, efficient, pleasurable, and meaningful—for you and your students. As with all previous items I have presented, these are free (two “althoughs”: [a] in some cases you need to set up an account, but at no cost; [b] some offer so-called premium or deluxe versions for which there is a charge); and this column is Part 1; Part 2 will follow in my October column. And don’t forget: I welcome your suggestions; just send them on to me so all who read this can benefit!
Tips From the Pros: Designing an Online Course as Part of a Team
In a recent Magna Online Seminar, Susan Ko, executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Maryland University College, offered the following advice on developing an online course as part of a team.
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