The Tech Of Business Podcast

Supporting your students as their online course instructor is part of why you’re creating your online course, right? So in today’s episode we’re getting into how that support manifests itself and how you can create the best experience for your students. In my opinion, it’s not enough to provide content access, we must provide other classroom experiences even for virtual classrooms. A formal classroom comes with expectations; students know what is expected of them when they arrive, how they should act and processes for when they leave. We need to create that same level of expectation online. It’s something that separates your course from lesser courses online. We accomplish this with a multi-pronged approach. The first approach I’m going to discuss is your Facebook group ~ I bet you thought I was going to jump into email or the intro unit inside your course material, didn’t you? But the warmth and clear guidelines of your Facebook group (or other online discussion forum) is both easier to understand and relate