Welcome to Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom! This course will help you apply strategies to the critical areas of K-12 virtual instruction to significantly impact virtual education. We will examine the pitfalls beginning teachers run into and learn how to overcome them by focusing on the fundamentals that have the greatest impact on student learning in a blended or online environment. By the end of the course, you will be able to empower your students to be voracious learners who are ready to go out and make the world a better place to live. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: • Identify the role of direct instruction within a virtual course. • Establish direct communication and meaningful relationships with your students. • Use instructional strategies that motivate and challenge your students to think more critically. • Define at-risk students and examine effective strategies for teaching this demographic. • Build an inclusive and thriving online community with students, parents, and other teaching professionals.
SW
Content justified the title of the course and the excellent job done by the Authors. Thanks
BD
Excellent, Excellent course for teachers. Learned many things not only for the virtual classroom but also for classroom sessions. Video sessions by Mr.Chris Long are awesome with plenty of insights.
LK
The BEST course in this series by far! This is a real model of what I hope to achieve with my own online courses. Finally!
RK
An Awesome course, really worth to the teachers those who are engaging with remote learning.
YG
It is really an interesting course for understanding the students and their handling techniques
CC
Thank you so much for the varied insights on Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom.
AV
Great Learning Experience, found very difficult to answers few question but finally done it. Thank you Coursera & UOL
SM
Course is good, it gives you some nice ideas on how to utilize technology to make your instructions better.
AA
Well thought out and executed course. Ironic how the course emphasized the importance of Instructor/learner interaction yet there weren't any.
KA
I thank the instructor of this course for his great and inspiring lessons. He is a great model for both teachers and students.
MM
Great info, great additional resources, the instructor is engaging and provides many good ideas and new perspectives.
RK
This is the best course and very useful for teacher how to conduct online leaching or class.
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I don’t recommend this course. Most of the links recommended are broken. The speaker provides only few information. It offers you many videos and some articles with a lot of information. I have to admit it that I only benefit from the links that I managed to open. It was just ok. Nothing special compared to the others seminars of this course.
Need an update for materials, There is a problem in the assignment
An outstanding course. Thoughtful with unique insights into some of the challenges of the virtual classroom with realistic suggestions on how to approach them.
The BEST course in this series by far! This is a real model of what I hope to achieve with my own online courses. Finally!
The course will be a good option for teachers who teach in schools, it describes the aspects of online teaching, how to get the attention of students, and how to ensure diversity in classes. The instructor was explaining things in a better and simpler way.
The videos were engaging and thought-provoking, but the information would have more credibility if more scholarly resources were listed to support it. Assessments did examine if students were paying attention, but they could have been improved by aligning with the assessment styles being taught in the course.
While the information is good the tone is very informal and feels very unprepared. Plus, there are no longer discussion boards.
The course was interesting but most of the electronic resources are not available anymore.
the course needs a thorough update
The BIG problem is that no peers were available to review my assignment for a long time.
The contents were good, they motivate you to do different things in the virtual classroom and the resources were interesting to apply them for various subjects.
Unfortunately not all features are still active.
Excellent course. learnt a lot to create better virtual learning experience for the students.Thank you so much.
Good course for those interested in improving interpersonal communication in class. However, some of the links do not work and it definitely needs an update of some sort. I would like to thank the entire team who worked on this MOOC. Thank you very much for your hard work!
Valuable tips for teaching online regardless of your experiences in teaching. The course gives a mix of theory, open-air discussions and quizzes. I would like to see less repetitive material from online sites next time.
This was pretty good. I'd say the information given was basic but useful. The technique of recommending readings according to our perceived skill level and concerns was nice, although I ended up with a lot of material to read. Some of it repeated what was in other readings. I'd cull the readings some.
I found the videos boring, and these basketball'metaphors don´t work for me. The peer assignment options are not connected to the material covered in the lectures, the tests also contain unpredictable questions and answers ("to do everything possible ...." is called a strategy!!!). Lots of broken links, esp. in peer assignment tasks. Dissatisfied
This one was better. At least he was trying to be interesting. However, there is no one there to peer review your assignments, and you cannot peer review assignment. Boo to Orange County.
Too generic to be advanced course.
I really enjoyed the course. Having developed a lot of online courses it is nice to be able to step back and reflect best practice and alternative ideas. It really makes you think about not just your 'average' student but also students who don't neatly fall into the average category. I would also strongly encourage you to read the discussion items from other participants and especially to read the optional content, as most of these articles are really good and reinforce or expand your learning.
It was a highly advanced course on virtual teaching strategies. Particularly, the peer assignment in the course allows the learner to orient towards advanced tools to be put forth in the classroom. Quizzes were adequately challenging and loved taking them. However, the only pointer that can be worked on is providing more web-based resources to read during the course and more number of questions in the quizzes. Overall, enjoyed learning and looking forward to putting them into practice.