Patch 19 – Be Kind Online
This article resonated with me due to the shift we, including students, have had to make to online learning in such a short time. It can be a struggle for many. One passage that stood out to me is the following:
“I tend to work with faculty tasked with the development and / or delivery of fully online courses. When I follow-up with faculty after they’ve taught an online course for the first time, I notice that regardless of subject area, a few key themes emerge. Here are three concerns that I hear from online instructors time and again:
- Students are far more demanding and even blatantly rude within the online environment when compared to in-class
- Students assume the online course is a “bird course” and are upset when they learn that the time required to successfully complete an online course is as much or more than the time required in a fully face-to-face environment
- Faculty strongly suspect that online students are engaging in various types of academic dishonesty to a greater degree within online courses than in-class” (O’Reilly, 2017)
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