Comments on: Can F2F education be replicated in the online environment?

By: Xaravious Kemp

Xaravious Kemp — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:59:00 +0000

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By: Xaray Beltran

Xaray Beltran — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:55:25 +0000

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By: Karen Watte

Karen Watte — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:03:38 +0000

The last part of your posting references that ‘personal connection’ that can sometimes be harder to achieve in an online environment. Some instructors find it helpful to post a video greeting at the beginning of the term — a welcome to the class. Some also post short videos of themselves introducing the material for each week. These are easy ways to create a connection with the students — make the instructors more ‘present’ and ‘real’ to the students. Ecampus can help you in producing these types of videos. Office hours via Skype, etc., then allow the students to connect back to you in a form outside of the written word.

By: Shannon Riggs

Shannon Riggs — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:36:00 +0000

This post reflects the concerns of many new online instructors. It is a huge shift to go from the calendar of preparing on-campus courses to getting an entire course ready before the term begins. I won’t re-hash the many reasons for doing so — your post suggests that you understand those reasons already. But, I will say that the support you’ll find in Ecampus will make your course development a more collaborative process than an on-campus course development usually tends to be. That kind of collaboration does take time, but it also takes some of the heat off of you. (At least, that’s what we hope!)