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shit. Uh, okay, Lord, please help me get this done.

The Tol class has been a journey filled with exploration

and learning.

In fact, this attorney, that will be ongoing as I

work to continue increasing my knowledge and awareness of online

learning capabilities.

I hope I never stop learning.

Let me begin by sharing my top three takeaways from

this experience.

First is really embracing.

First is really embracing the importance of developing a formal

communication plan for my online students.

It's not enough to just have a plan.

However, Were the plan to be effective, it must be

communicated and implemented.

Letting students know how I will be communicating with them

throughout the semester is especially important.

Likewise, setting my expectations for how they should communicate with

their peers and with me is equally important.

My second take away involves the many canvas tools at

our disposal for teaching online.

There are many great tools available in the campus learning

management system, including discussions, collaborations, conferences, chat and announcements just

to name a few courses can design can be designed.

Courses can be designed using a few or many of

the tools available in canvas as well as many tools

available outside of canvas.

But just because we can use as many tools as

we like doesn't mean we should.

I think we should be selectable you've been.

I think we should be selective and purposeful in deciding

which tools of modalities to use.

Since using too many may make our course seem chaotic

and disorganized.

Instead of creating a fun and engaging course, using too

many tools may overwhelm students and reduce their level of

engagement in the course.

My philosophy is the more fun and engaging I can

make my course, the more memorable the course becomes.

Which, by the way, is my primary objective.

The last take away I want to discuss is that

I now know it's possible to have my online students

participate in a team project.

I love team projects.

There is no guarantee that my health care administration students

will all work in a hospital, doctors, office, clinic, nursing

home or other centralized healthcare setting they made by themselves

working for a large insurance company or a decentralized organization

where the workforce is distributed among multiple towns, regions, states

or even countries.

There may be situations like the current pandemic, where even

local organizations are requiring requiring employees whose jobs enable them

to work from home.

Do so.

Under those circumstances, distributed workforce is need to be able

to work remotely together to get things done and meet

deadlines. My current day job is designing and developing training

for the consumer banking division of J.

P. Morgan Chase.

Colleagues on my team are located across the country, some

as far away as California.

It is interesting that academia is becoming more widely accepting

of distance learning.

Now I'd like to spend some time discussing some challenges

I see with online learning and some solutions I think

might help mitigate those challenges were not considered just considering

moving one week's worth, of course, content into an online

experience. But an entire semester a semester is a significant

amount of time to conduct learning online.

So I see keeping students interest levels high as a

significant challenge.

One way to address the challenges to maintain regular communication

with students, which is why having a well articulated communication

plan and faithfully executing that plan is essential.

Another way to keep students engaged is by demonstrating my

enthusiasm for them as individuals as well as for the

health care human resource is subject, I teach.

One compliment I consistently received for my students has been

that the stories I tell for my own healthcare experience

helps them understand HR concept much more than they otherwise

would. Lastly, I want to be selective about the canvas

tools I use, thereby reducing the chance of overwhelming my

students, especially those who have never before taken an online

class. I want to stretch my students, not break them.

More enjoyable.

I can make the experience, the more likely they will

retain what they've learned for a longer period of time.

The second challenge I'd like to discuss is managing the

team video projects I will be assigning.

A key component of this involves something that has been

pivotal throughout the tol course, namely communication.

Just as it's important that I maintain regular communication with

individual students, it's also essential that I maintain regular communication

with the teams about the team project.

This is more than the detailed discussion of the team

project of my course syllabus.

It also includes some short videos that discuss each of

the various project, deliver bles in detail.

This helps address the different learning styles of the class

as well as the individual teams.

Some folks learn best by reading others by watching or

listening to videos.

Speaking of videos, since the main delivery herbal of the

team project will be a video, I think it's important

that I demonstrate my own use of videos throughout this

semester. Modeling my own use of the technology I'm expecting

students to deliver will make it less daunting to them

and hopefully alleviate any hesitation they may have with video

technology. Last but not least, I have one question, one

question. For one or many of last but not least,

I have a question for one or more of my

colleagues, namely, what are one or two innovative ways to

use canvas tools that have not been addressed in this

class? I'm looking forward to hearing your ideas.

It's been a fun and enlightening class.

Thanks so much for watching my video take care and

stay safe

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