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NLU eCampus  Support For Faculty Teaching Online About the Faculty |
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About the Faculty Teaching Online
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Aleta Wilson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Management and Business
I started using technology because I wanted to experience teaching in a new medium. I began by taking courses in online pedagogy from the online vendor, eCollege.
I find that online teaching requires that I think through the entire course BEFORE the course starts, whereas, in the classroom setting, I only have to stay one session ahead of the class.
I am incorporating more animation and ungraded pop-up quizzes with no more than 3 questions as a quick recap. Another thing that I've added is a survey at the end of my courses that is directly tied to the course objectives. It is not scientific and simply asks "did this course meet the objective of _____" yes or no. Since each course has no more than 10 objectives, the survey is 10 questions or less.
In addition to the traditional LCD projector for display of notes, I am constantly sending students to the Internet to bring information into the classroom. I use the course development platform, eCollege or WebCT, to store ALL course information so that students can access course materials 24/7 from any location.
I believe that all of our courses should be offered in a hybrid mode (i.e. Mix between F2F and online)
Students in our discipline, management information systems, expect that the course will be web supported.
They develop into a community, but it seems to be slower than F2F. The community develops through a lot of interaction on discussion boards with a great deal of participation from the instructor.
As I lecture, I can 'link' my words to websites for illustration of a point.
Most of the students do very well and like technology.
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