One of my students told me a few months ago that he didn`t find any big differences between my online class and a yahoo discussion forum. He said the only thing he was allowed to do was just posting messages and uploading files.
Well, this is kind of online writing desk, as far as the tutor doesn`t upgrade students` profiles to editors. So why is that? Why shouldn’t they be allowed to take charge of their online environment?
In regards with the tutoring practices, is this a matter of trust or a matter of regulation? And when you tend to regulate someone is it not because you don`t trust them somehow?
I thought about active learning and self-regulation so I have decided to upgrade my students` profile from “student” to “teacher”. And nothing bad happened. Contrariwise, I`ve noticed an increase in the number of online discussions and collaborative work. I learned a lot from some of my “new colleagues”, one of them taught us about the PHP toolkit.
Online, a strategy to enhance students` motivation is to let them be the do-er.
In a shared platform, the tutor can develop new instructional materials and supporting documentation for his online class, and students can contribute to the development of web-based materials, videos, written materials and other instructional material, they can make their own choices.
Tutors and students alike can make decisions regarding the appropriateness and efficacy of these, modifying content as appropriate.
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very clever! I'll see what I can do with this idea!
ReplyDeletethank you! take care
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thanks, you too^_^
ReplyDeleteIt would be very interesting if you could share your findings with us !