Learning Portfolio: Technical Assistance and Resources

In this episode of Learning Portfolio: providing technical assistance and resources to students. My course is already designed and includes clear tutorials for assignments and marking guides available for students and therefore, it is a bit of a challenge to find new strategies to employ in my online teaching. I provide technical advice one on …

Learning Portfolio Introductions

These series of posts are on strategies for online learning. The first is a combination of something I already do and a new one. I like sending welcome emails to students that introduce myself and give an overview of the course and some key things students will want to start by checking out. However, I …

Enhancing Social Presence

My first task in this post is to examine how my previous post should have enhanced social presence in my online course and how to improve upon that. A bio that shares information can help with social presence as it is a way to project your personality into the online environment and be seen as …

OTL201 Bio Post

Hi, I live in Kamloops, BC though I’m from the east coast and have lived in 4 Canadian provinces so far in my life. I love camping, running, skiing, and mountain biking. During COVID I’ve added one more that my two kids have been really into – skateboarding. The image depicts one of the things …

Post 5: Integration

It is time to say goodbye to the course OTL101 and reflect on what I have learned and to showcase one of my previous posts. First, I have chosen to showcase my last post, #4 on feedback as I think feedback is important, which the article by Hattie also emphasized. As well, that post really …

Post 4: Feedback

Similar to the article by Hattie, I agree the feedback is a very important part in teaching and I was not surprised to see the evidence for it’s importance demonstrated in the article. I believe there are some gaps between what Hattie recommends and my own practice and there is always room for improvement. Something …

Learning Outcomes and Assessments

In order to examine the relationship to the learning outcomes and assessments I will use Community and Ecosystem Ecology as an example. There are many learning outcomes in this course and so I have only pasted a few below that illustrate how they are mostly associated with high level cognitive skills: Sample Community And Ecosystem …

Considering Cognitive Presence

The course has begun to explore the community of inquiry model in which cognitive presence is one of three overlapping concepts in the model. I was not previously aware of this model of learning and I suppose that is a learning in itself! In Post 1, I considered student engagement to be important and wondered …

Introductions

Welcome to my blog. I love beaches and what better relaxing place to think about when working away online. You may see a beach theme as I settle into blogging to lighten things up. Onto the first three questions for this blog post. First, I think student engagement is the most important characteristic of high …