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My classes include a variety of media including text based lectures but I also record videos for my students every week
and there is a lot of interactive activities in which students can engage.
Like a wiki which enables students to coauthor a document together
I use group work occasionally in my classes
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When I teach an onsite class my student spend 4 hours and 10 minutes in class.
Although I give them 10 minutes break in between the 2 hours
So anticipate spending that much time accessing the material if you're good reader you
have to think a lot of the material in an online environment will be in written form so if
you’re a slow reader it might actually you might actually spend a little more time accessing the material
So anticipate spending that 4 hours you would spend in onsite class just dealing with the weekly material in a week add to that
readings writings other assignments that would take place in the online environment
so... ah...
generally...
a good rule of thumb is 1 hour of classwork equals 3 hours of out of class work so if your planning on 4 hours in on an online class
anticipate another 12 hours of work other than actually being in the online environment
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No, you don't have to the main campus fortunately a long time ago a man named Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
an so we can actually talk on the telephone we can talk through skype we can use e-mail.
Certain professors are better at e-mail than others.
Certain professors are excellent at e-mail and they prefer that is a main source of communication
Other professors like myself are not so good at e-mail and prefer face to face contact ... Voice contact...
and, so in that since you do not have to come to campus.
I mean that kind of defeats some of the purpose of online courses especially for those students who are hours away from any campus
and um that’s why they are taking an online course in first place ...
most of the time it's e-mail, its skype, its telephone, usually
usually professors have office hours and during those office hours ..
those office hours include telephone calls and so they can post office hours
and you can call them on the phone during those office hours and communicate directly with the professor
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There is a couple of avenues.. The discussion boards are a big place for them to get to know each other
as they're responding to each other in the topics for the week.
They can message each other they can interact through group assignments.
If there happens to be a group assignment where they are working together. they can e-mail each other
But there are boundaries of student conduct that need to be followed when they are doing that
you need to respect each other and respect each others time.
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Students are graded in a variety of ways from there discussion post whether
they are addressing the question whether they are covering the topic thoroughly and whether they're um ...
also where they are posting to other students.
its a requirement in many classes for students to engage with other students that is just one component
any kind of simulation any kind of exams projects that they are required to do are usually weighted i personally use points
the students get so many points for doing a particular activity.
Um... for reviewing videos for doing journaling which are private between you and your instructor.
So.. Those combination of points works out to a percentage and there is a grade scale in each of the syllabuses
that indicate what the expectation and what the grades will be
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I'm not going to give you specific dates because those are going to vary from semester to semester
the first one is a refund day if you want to drop a course and get a refund for your course fees you have to drop by that date
it's often referred to as the 10% date but it doesn't occur at the 10% time
the second important date is census which would be to 20% date
that's the last date you can drop a class without having a W show up on your record
and then finally the last important date is the 60% date that's where if you drop a class ...
the last time you can drop a class with a W on your record
after that you have to receive a letter grade in the class and if you're not attending
or if you stopped participate in the class that might very well be an F
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