Discussion: How is it advantageous to access the content you need when you need it? How might that be a disadvantage?How can there be high quality interaction without being face-to-face?
Online courses can be impersonal, disconnected, and unfulfilling—FictionOnline classes are easier than onsite classes –FictionOnline instructors are less attentive than onsite instructors. --FictionOnline courses are more expensive than onsite courses. –FictionOnline courses fit better into a busier schedule.--FactYou can participate in an online class from anywhere –FictionEducation standards are lower for online courses. Fiction
Instructor: help students define these terms
•Course presentations. Some online courses will offer textual explanations of the material organized by week or unit, with separately accessed resources. Others might furnish an integrated course presentation leading the user through the material in a series of screens, with resources such as videos or interactive exercises incorporated into the presentation. Some other courses will simply direct students to access specific information on their own. Pay special attention to material that is within a course presentation—it is usually the most important information. •Textbooks and other hard copy materials. Your textbook may be a printed document, an online version accessed through an e-reader program, or a file (such as a .pdf or Microsoft Word document) that can be downloaded and either printed or read onscreen. •Video lectures. Some online courses include video lectures by an instructor, created specifically for the course or taped from previous presentations.•Animations and interactive media. Because of the effort and cost involved in creating animations or interactive media, they are likely centered around the most important concepts in the course. •Podcasts. A method of publishing audio and video programs via the Internet that lets users subscribe to and automatically download new files, podcasting in online courses might offer full, unabridged audio recordings of the online presentation. •Web links. Your course might also provide additional Web links added by the instructor that lead to external websites, videos, and other resources.
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Instructor: talk about how one bad experience may be inaccurate but can have a lasting impact if people are unaware.
Ask yourself—What can be good about this? In a bad situation. Explain how important thoughts areIn class exercise—students stand up and hold one arm out in front of them. They say out loud “I’m a bad person” while another student applies pressure to their arm, moving it down. Repeat with the phrase “I’m a good person” and see the difference. The arm almost always goes much further down in the first instance. This is how quick thoughts can impact the body and how we experience the world.
Ask yourself—What can be good about this? In a bad situation. Explain how important thoughts areIn class exercise—students stand up and hold one arm out in front of them. They say out loud “I’m a bad person” while another student applies pressure to their arm, moving it down. Repeat with the phrase “I’m a good person” and see the difference. The arm almost always goes much further down in the first instance. This is how quick thoughts can impact the body and how we experience the world.