The lesson began with a discussion on the reading as summarised in the previous post. Particularly on the section relating to dealing with problematic students. Genearally the class felt that with face-to-face learning environments you were able to pick up on students body language and perhaps head off any problems before they become major problems whereas with online teaching the problem could readily get out of hand. Particularly with 24/7 internet activity between students.

One of the unanswered questions was with online learning how much time should the teacher put in and when should he/she be avaliable to respond to students who may be online at any time?

The remainder of the lesson was spent preparing for the last assignment which is to participate in a short online course and critique it.

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