I am taking this class as an elective because I am interested in instructional technology. I want to learn more about building communities on the internet. I did not know this was going to be part of the class but was glad to find out we would be learning about using the internet to build learning communities.
I am working on the doctoral degree in higher education because I want to increase my knowledge of higher education. In addition, I want to teach psychology or sociology as a full-time instructor at a community college and I believe this degree will increase my qualifications for obtaining a full-time position.
My current goal is to finish my doctoral degree and gain as much technological knowledge as possible. My future goal is to teach full-time and I want to teach on-line courses as well as face-to-face courses. I have already taught sociology completely on-line with WebCT and I really enjoyed it. I used to work in the education department at SFA helping to develop courses in WebCT so I designed the sociology course and taught it for Panola College in the Fall of 2005.
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- Charlie
- I am a docotral student in Higher Ed. Supervision, Instruction, and Curriculum. I recently graduated with a master's degree in psychology with an 18 hour minor in sociology at Stephen F. Austin State University. I started out commuting from Nacogdoches but moved to commerce at the beginning of last fall semester.
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Hi Charlie,
What did you do to create learning communities in teaching your online class? (By accident or on purpose) Or were you aware of that concept online?
I had manditory discussion postings. Each student had to post two discussion each week and I assigned the topic to discuss. They had to post an original discussion and comment to one of their fellow students postings.
Good. Forums can help to create a community of learning; however, timeliness of posting and quality of posts are key to the interaction so they don't create an illusion of participation when they're required to post x# of threads. I'll share with you some research I've done in this area and a rubric I use to grade forums.
Thank you Dr. W because this is one of the things I am interested in learning more about in this class.
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