Online teaching not working? Maybe you don’t know what you are doing. 1. A good online course must be driven by doing, not by listening; ask students to try to accomplish something they don’t know how to do and help them do it. To do this you must build “goal based scenarios” with built in expert help. 2. You cannot be the only expert in the room. You must find experts and record them (or provide short readings) so they can pop up as needed when a student is lost. You need to be there as needed as well. The other students can serve can provide just in time help as well. Don’t attempt to recreate the classroom. You want students to talk to each other. 3. There can be no tests. Only goals and the possibility that the students can achieve the goal set out for them. 4. Get over theory. Professors love to teach theories, usually because they have had no real world practice themselves. Stop building your courses around theory. 5. Make it fun. #online learning #remote teaching
So true Roger, number 4 particularly resonates with me. Learning should be based on guidance, practice and not being afraid of making mistakes. Thanks for enlightening us. Do you mind if I translate it to spanish?
Roger Schank, I was going to scroll on by this one, but decided to comment as there are some things I'm not sure I quite agree with, or you haven't explained in a way I can understand. This is not trolling but, there are some points I agree with, some I think are necessary in certain disciplines, some points are glaringly missing. One thing I am not sure about is the expert bit. I deal with people that are experts already, in their position. I have knowledge, learned skills, capabilities and talents I can pass on to them to support them in becoming better at what they do. Do you consider there is a place for people who do like theory, so they can contextualise, dig through the facts, before they move on to the how?
I think online teaching is actually way harder. Throughout the Covid-19 period I have attended lots of online teaching lessons, during some of them I slept, during some I kept scrolling through social network and during some I was extremely focused. The common things I came to find about the ones I liked the most were when the instructor was engaging asking every now and then questions to others and making it about the attendees and not just about the content, also giving some exercises, responding to questions and so on.
Thanks for sharing.. great advise
Very useful
Well said
Create task-based content outline. It helps to keep you focused. And then, dovetail the theory (only relevant and common ones) into this. Plus, having contact sessions (synchronous) with an expert also helps.
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Sounds good Roger Schank. Can you direct me to any evidence about these steps as best practice? They definitively sound good to me!