I was not prepared to teach an online course. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I was forced to offer online courses. It was messy. I worked on videos day and night and struggled to meet students' requirements, but I was not satisfied with the teaching results. After the COVID-19 pandemic, I intentionally avoided online teaching modality.
I feel lucky to have received this six-week training in humanizing my course. In this course, I received step-by-step training on humanizing my course by providing a humanized home page on Canvas, a humanized course card, captions to my videos, bumper videos, micro-lectures, etc. I improved my online teaching ability through this course. After six weeks of training, I genuinely feel that I can offer online courses to the level that students feel that they are being taught by human beings, not robots, while enjoying the flexibility of online courses.
After the six-week training, I have the confidence that I can teach online courses well. I have saved all the course materials and instructions for future reference. Based on what I learned in this Academy, I will prepare online courses before they are assigned to me. Sufficient time to think about the course design is essential. Giving myself sufficient time and using the tools and methods learned from this Academy, I will design my course well and use more time to think about the details. When I need to teach the course, I will revise it and enjoy communicating with students through the online teaching modality. Teaching life will be more enjoyable!