This section will help you gain a little more information to help assist you before you begin your onboard journey:
You will gain a perspective on face-to-face content and how the design of the content can be done in different modalities.
You will develop an understanding of distance education.
You will view examples of different modalities and delivery styles of distance education.
You will gain a better perspective to enlighten your own expert thoughts on delivery methods.
Most of us are familiar with the face-to-face styles of instruction and interacting with the participants or the audience that we are targeting in Edvance. You may be an instructor dealing with apprenticeship, professional development. leadership, K-12, and/or career certification. However, having the face-to-face component will allow you to see, hear, and model for your students in ways that you can receive feedback and body language to gauge how to improve the lessons, or see how they are doing. If you already have content and are with your Edvance guide to teach ONLY a face to face course. Then please move to the "Basic Instructor Info Tab" However, if you are thinking of using technology tools or other formats that are needed during our Covid19 expectations and for the future of having these courses also offered in another format, feel free to read through the page and watch these basic informative videos and the next steps will be provided for you at the end of the page.
First, there are many different terminologies that we hear out in the educational and online platforms so to ensure that we are on the same page, here are some definitions.
sometimes called distance learning, online learning, online education, e-learning, or virtual learning, uses the Internet as its medium. There is some level of geographic separation of students and the instructor, even though they can sometimes see and hear one another (more on this below). It is important to note that the geographic distance alone affects teaching and learning such that it is not the same as being face-to-face. Technology is used for interactive telecommunications (email, vidcon, chat, text, Learning Management System (LMS, such as Laulima), etc.)
is a term used to describe distance education where some portion of the learning is via distance education and another, usually smaller portion, is face-to-face (in person). Percentages vary, but hybrid is often defined as one to 50% face-to-face with the remaining portion offered online. Online education professionals have long grappled with the topic of what constitutes hybrid. Even today there is no one standard, but we can say that hybrid education in this discussion means any technology enabled, distance education, whether synchronous or asynchronous, that is not 100% face-to-face.
However, with the use of products such as Zoom and Google Meet, you can use and show your content through share screen if you use power points and/or want students to collaborate with you on shared documents and deliver courses in this format. It is recommended that the use of Laulima is a good place to use a test for itʻs security measures and you can actually watch students take the exams through zoom.
Here is a short video below that gives a short intro on how to use some paper based content through zoom as a having face-to-face, but you would then use the LMS and/or use the homework assignments through other methods that you may be able to talk to your participants about.
Russell Stannard (Teacher Training Videos) March 17,2020
is generally conducted by mail, but it is often used to describe distance education where there is little to no interaction between the students and other students and the instructor. We do not consider this to be acceptable as a form of distance education and neither do our accreditors.
is a synchronous (see below) technology that enables participants to communicate in real time while viewing each other via video (when it works properly). Zoom has become the vidcon of choice during COVID-19.
Although you would still need to show some lesson plans and paperwork would need to be in order. Here is an example of video conferencing and how you could teach a course through zoom live short/long, in real time. This shows a dance class. However, you could have a course built to teach how to paint and use a Laulima Learning Management Platform to help with other resources for your participants if you needed to have them understand things. Otherwise, these types of courses can be done with kits that we could send to the participants.
Feisworld Media, March 21,2020
means that the learning interaction is taking place in real time, such as during a videoconferencing session, on the phone, or even while editing Google docs simultaneously. Synchronous just means at the same time. It is not the same as face-to-face.
With this format to deliver synchronous with sessions can also be delivered with other tools that are available if you would like to learn. For example, you can play games with your participants based on your content. The video below on Videoconferencing can be delivered synchronously with other technology tools to make things much more fun and interactive.
Claire Bridget Phillips, March 27, 2020
Below is another video example that you could use with zoom and an iPad with White Board Capabilities. This would go great if you are teaching math or some kind of drawing. If you wanted to, you could also have your students demonstrate by allowing them to share their screens or just show it on the camera. But, however you feel comfortable teaching, the engagement opportunities are possible.
Online Network of Educators, March 11, 2020
means that the learning interactions take place at different times within a scheduled window, such as answer prompts on a discussion board and responding to others, completing quizzes or tests online in the LMS (Learning Management System), or doing assignments and uploading them by a due date.
The video below talks about an Asynchronous course and how there are many misconceptions about Asynchronous courses, but this style of online course delivery is approved by accreditors due to the nature of how the course is designed and how the instructor interaction and student participation is monitored much more frequently in modular conceptions.
LearnUSI, August 21, 2014
Next Steps.
If you are still going to just teach face-to-face in the traditional sense and have no need for any type of training or interest in technology tools, then feel free to move on to the "Basic Instructor Info" tab. However if you are thinking of teaching in other modalities of distance learning styles and may need some additional training on tools, such as zoom please do the following:
Contact your guide and he/she will set you up with available training support.
Move to the "Things to Know" Tab on the navigation bar on the top of the screen.