Exercise Physiology is not a course that can be a fully online course because of the lab portion. I have been developing virtual laboratories of exercise physiology since 2015, and I have created more than 1000 virtual lab videos, including even the virtual and augmented reality of exercise physiology laboratories; however, I taught exercise physiology always in the face-to-face class format, so I did not need to use virtual labs for my face to face course. Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, I should have taught this class online. I have a better position than other professors who teach this class and do not have virtual labs. However, I have never learned how to teach an online class effectively.
Now that I have taken this workshop, I have a deeper understanding of online STEM classes and students. One thing I am most excited about as I transition into teaching my humanized online course is "how to deal with our students as human beings." This course made me more aware of my students' feelings toward online STEM classes. Now I have the confidence to teach an online course and even to humanize my exercise physiology online course. My exercise physiology online course is listed in CSU Fully Online (https://www.csufullyonline.com/), and only three universities provide fully online exercise physiology courses. I believe my fully online exercise physiology course will be only the humanized one among them.
I will create a building community and get students to interact with each other, including me, with video or/and audio throughout this semester. I will also replace many of my existing lecture videos with ones made in Adobe Spark, to shorten and clear the material for the students. I believe my virtual lab videos can be a much better fit with ones made in Adobe Spark, so I am excited to replace my existing virtual lab videos, which will be available to the public through YouTube. I want to maintain this humanized asynchronous online course for CSU students. If my courses need to be all face-to-face classes based on our campus decision, I would like to do a flexible hybrid course for my humanized online course to maintain the availability of courses across the system.