{"id":12105,"date":"2022-02-08T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbb-feb.bigbluebutton.org\/?p=12105"},"modified":"2023-08-28T22:50:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T22:50:38","slug":"teachers-are-enhancing-students-success-through-effective-online-pedagogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigbluebutton.org\/articles\/teachers-are-enhancing-students-success-through-effective-online-pedagogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Are Enhancing Students’ Success Through Effective Online Pedagogy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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With the new wave of Covid-19, educators and students alike are finding themselves in virtual classrooms instead of physical classrooms. In this article, we provide insight on how you, as an educator, can be more effective when teaching online.<\/span><\/p>

Imagine you are a student and want to learn a new topic such as beekeeping. Consider the difference between reading a textbook or participating in a live lecture (sans live bees!). The two mediums are very different and, as Marshall McLuhan famously captured in his phrase \u201cthe medium is the message,\u201d the differences heavily influence the style of teaching and learning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Virtual teaching, by definition, restricts the medium to audio, video, slides, chat, and whatever other interaction tools you have within the virtual classroom. In contrast to a physical classroom, which has traditional cues for insight into the class, students in the virtual classroom invariably feel more distant. The same is true for the teacher.<\/span><\/p>

However, despite the distance, your intellectual and emotional connection to students need not become equally distant. Let\u2019s use the beekeeping example again. We typically don\u2019t think of the beekeeping textbook and lecture as mutually exclusive \u2013 they both cover the same content, but because they are different mediums, they require different skill sets to master as the educator. You can imagine the textbook author needing different skills to be an effective teacher in a physical class (and vice-versa). In a similar manner, teaching online requires a different set of skills to master \u2013 though the same pedagogic theories and practices are shared between virtual and physical classes.<\/span><\/p>

If we think of online education as a different medium, then how can you be more effective in this medium? The question starts with looking at effective online teaching.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Being a passionate and effective educator means remaining a student forever; it means understanding how to bring your content to the learner in ways that engage, inspire, and teach them within the strengths\/weaknesses of the medium.<\/p>

According to Rhonda Bondie<\/a>, researcher at Brown University and writer for Harvard\u2019s GSE (Graduate School of Education), the qualities of an effective online teacher include possessing:<\/p>