There are many similarities with teaching online and teaching in the traditional classroom. There are also many differences as you can probably guess.
Review the Illinois Online Network’s guide for strengths and weaknesses of an online class below:
Strengths and Weaknesses of an online class
What are they? When referring to a Web-enhanced course, it is simply a traditional face to face course that has supplemental materials online. They are essentially technology enhanced traditional courses. So for example, it could be a website that includes your syllabus, PowerPoint Presentations from class, other links, student grades, and class materials. Many instructors…
What are they? When referring to Hybrid courses, generally it is a class that is 80% online and 20% in the classroom. This can vary though depending on the subject matter. For example, in a chemistry course, you might have 50% of the activities such as reading, writing, and quizzes take place online while the…
The psychomotor domain encompasses the skills requiring the use and coordination of skeletal muscles, as in the physical activities of performing, manipulating, and constructing (Kemp, Morrison, Ross). Psychomotor skills are typically more observable, easier to describe, and measure in terms of evaluation. There is no taxonomy that is accepted universally for this domain. A very…
What are they? When referring to online classes, these are what you probably think of first. This is where the student and instructor never see each other- except through writing and exchanging pictures. Through robust instructional design, the instructor sets up activities to aid in the learning of material online. Students usually attend online classes…
The Affective domain involves objectives concerning attitudes, appreciations, values, and emotions such as enjoying, conserving, and respecting (Kemp, Morrison, Ross). Bloom identified 5 basic categories for writing objectives within the Affective domain. Receiving – Being aware of or attending to something in the environment. Responding – Showing some new behavior as a result of experience….
Issues of Technology for Instructors and Development Time of an Online Course Instructors who have never taught online find it to be new and often times challenging for the first go around. If they choose to use their own materials (rather than publisher content which we will discuss later), they have to convert their existing…