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This module discusses ways to communicate high expectations in your distance course by providing models and examples.
Communicating high expectations within your course by models
Distance education faculty must plan ahead, be organized, and learn to communicate with students in different ways. We favor building many of these "expectation statements" into the course. We also favor frequently reminding students of course expectations and dates.
What constitutes a good post in the discussion board?
There is no single recipe for a good post. Since discussions develop and evolve, dependent upon varied input and responses, it is impossible to create a single example that serves all courses equally well. You, as the course instructor, know what you are expecting for a good post and it will serve you well to spend some time defining such a post for students.
Example - defining expectations for the discussion board
In general, posting a single time is insufficient to engage in a discussion. What I expect to see is an evolving dialogue, featuring some exchange back and forth between students. I should be able to read the discussion and it should read much like an actual conversation between several people. Our online discussions will be class discussions, meaning that I expect you to show the same respect we would show each other in an actual classroom. Being respectful doesn't mean that you should agree with all points or that you can't disagree. It simply means you should respect the other point of view in a polite way. I suggest you stay away from excessively short responses like "I agree" and stay away from excessively long responses. As you post, be aware that you are engaging in a discussion. Work to craft your responses succinctly and focused. A good guide is to try to keep the response to a few paragraphs at most.It takes a great deal of work on the part of the student and the instructor to help students realize their potential. How and what you communicate is important to stress the expectations for the course. Don't minimize the impact that motivational statements and statements demonstrating your commitment to helping students understand and become successful will have on the students.
Framing expectations and parameters for student posts
It is also helpful to post a model of a good post with explanation as to why you believe the post is good. If you use student examples for this, remember to obtain permission of the student with a signed waiver and to acknowledge the student's ownership of their writing and ideas. This can also serve to reinforce the idea of copyright for students.
How long...how much...etc.?
Frequently communicate the connection between goals, objectives, and performance expectations to provide students with a connection to "what are we supposed to learn." Create models for important assignments or activities so students better understand the expectations for the assignment. Not only will this help students "hit the mark" but it may reduce the amount of questions you receive about the assignment. Create poor examples to show students how a poorly organized assignment would look and provide explanation about why it fails to meet standards. If you recycle student work, take care to follow copyright law. Providing model assignments will provide a visual example for students and can reduce the questions about the assignments
Questions & Answers
A golfer on a fairway is 70 m away from the green, which sits below the level of the fairway by 20 m. If the golfer hits the ball at an angle of 40° with an initial speed of 20 m/s, how close to the green does she come?
A mouse of mass 200 g falls 100 m down a vertical mine shaft and lands at the bottom with a speed of 8.0 m/s. During its fall, how much work is done on the mouse by air resistance
Can you compute that for me. Ty
Jude
what is the dimension formula of energy?
Chemistry is a branch of science that deals with the study of matter,it composition,it structure and the changes it undergoes
Adjei
please, I'm a physics student and I need help in physics
Adjanou
chemistry could also be understood like the sexual attraction/repulsion of the male and female elements. the reaction varies depending on the energy differences of each given gender. + masculine -female.
Pedro
A ball is thrown straight up.it passes a 2.0m high window 7.50 m off the ground on it path up and takes 1.30 s to go past the window.what was the ball initial velocity
2. A sled plus passenger with total mass 50 kg is pulled 20 m across the snow (0.20) at constant velocity by a force directed 25° above the horizontal. Calculate (a) the work of the applied force, (b) the work of friction, and (c) the total work.
you have been hired as an espert witness in a court case involving an automobile accident. the accident involved car A of mass 1500kg which crashed into stationary car B of mass 1100kg. the driver of car A applied his brakes 15 m before he skidded and crashed into car B. after the collision, car A s
can someone explain to me, an ignorant high school student, why the trend of the graph doesn't follow the fact that the higher frequency a sound wave is, the more power it is, hence, making me think the phons output would follow this general trend?
Nevermind i just realied that the graph is the phons output for a person with normal hearing and not just the phons output of the sound waves power, I should read the entire thing next time
Joseph
Follow up question, does anyone know where I can find a graph that accuretly depicts the actual relative "power" output of sound over its frequency instead of just humans hearing
Joseph
"Generation of electrical energy from sound energy | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore" ***ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7150687?reload=true
Ryan
what are the types of wave
Maurice
fine, how about you?
Mohammed
A string is 3.00 m long with a mass of 5.00 g. The string is held taut with a tension of 500.00 N applied to the string. A pulse is sent down the string. How long does it take the pulse to travel the 3.00 m of the string?
Who can show me the full solution in this problem?
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OpenStax, Promising practices in online teaching and learning. OpenStax CNX. Aug 11, 2008 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10559/1.2
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