Online Learning Lessons by Mingjun Chen https://padlet.com/cyliacmj/oll share your wonderful ideas with us!! en-us 2019-06-09 19:31:09 UTC 2019-06-14 04:09:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Here are several questions for you to discuss with us: cyliacmj https://padlet.com/cyliacmj/oll/wish/367291951 1. How do you define online learning (e-learning)?
2. What are the benefits of taking online learning lessons?
3. What are the challenges or concerns of the two types of online learning lessons?
4. Can you share your own learning or teaching experiences relating to the online learning lessons?]]> 2019-06-13 00:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cyliacmj/oll/wish/367291951 Tina (Min Dai) https://padlet.com/cyliacmj/oll/wish/367325789 1. E-learning is the use of e-technology to create learning experiences, including synchronous & asynchronous.
2. Benefits: variety of programs and courses, lower total costs, more comfortable learning environment, convenience and flexibility, more interaction, continuing in professional/life responsibilities, career advancement, greater ability to concentrate, improving technical skills and avoid commuting.
3. Concerns of asynchronous learning: you have to communicate expectations clearly and provide timely feedback; concerns of synchronous learning:  can't control students in different time zones or meet schedules that suit all learners, difficult to plan around holidays family responsibilities etc., accessible difficulties of materials for blind learners.
4. I would like to talk about the online learning lessons in the past two terms in Western. What left me deep impressions are the synchronous courses which require us to launch OWL and all the students will be seen whenever you are entering the room or leaving the room. The instructors are talking and providing the dynamic screen at same time, which is revealing the real classroom to some extent. We can type our questions to interact anytime we like, and instructors will respond in time, and all the rest students could get engaged. It is very convenient that we can sit, relax at home and then participate, and we feel more comfortable. We are also taught how to attend online courses because we need to download softwares by clicking the links that the instructors send to us before classes begin, which is much easier comparing with driving to school especially in winter time.]]> 2019-06-13 05:08:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cyliacmj/oll/wish/367325789 Alex (Qiongyao Ding) https://padlet.com/cyliacmj/oll/wish/367489228 1. Online learning is a process of learning through computer. It can be categorized in two types. The first is synchronous type which refers to live learning that teacher and students can have on-going interaction while teaching and learning. The second is asynchronous type which allows students to read the instructions and complete the tasks when they have time within that week.
2. a. more convenient and flexible for students
b. provides students more comfortable learning environment
c. provides multiple programs and courses for students
d. less cost for students
e. enhances students’ ability of concentrating as well as using of technology
3. The challenges and concerns of the synchronous type is that it is hard to reach a suitable time for all the learners if they are from different time zone and if there are holidays, and for blind learners, there is not much accessible materials for them to learn. As for asynchronous type, students would be disconnected if there is no clear communicative expectations and immediate feedback given to them.
4.  I would like to share my experience of teaching the online learning lessons. During the last year of my bachelor’s degree, I was taking internship in a web-based company dealing with English learning. The department I was in is a program for graded reading, which combines synchronous and asynchronous learning together. In the asynchronous part, students are given the materials of reading, the teaching materials of important vocabulary, phrases and complex sentences and the quizzes from the reading. And in the asynchronous part, students are organized in a Wechat group chat, where they can discuss and raise questions, and at a fixed time on that day, I, as the teacher, will show up to join the discussion and answer their questions. The learning goal is to finish a novel in 30 days, and the routine of online lessons take places every day. It was quite stressful and tiresome for me to teach an online lessons like this.
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