I agreed with many of the faculty in these videos, but the one I liked most was "Interact with Your Students" (#41 shown above). The reason I chose this video is because I agree with most of this Professors viewpoints on having a successful online education. In the video, John Fizel points out that you have to be just as dedicated and committed to online students if not more than your resident (face to face) students.
Online teaching requires you to give constant feedback for it not to be a passive environment. My first and only online course was when I was receiving my undergraduate degree in 2009 at CSULB; the teacher was very redundant and passive. Each week on Monday, he would post the readings, discussion topic, and assignment for the week. As a student, I was required to post two comments on the discussion board and turn in my assignments by midnight Sunday. The teacher rarely commented on the discussion posts and the assignments had few to no comments. His feedback was very poor, questions I had about assignments were not answered promptly, it sometimes took him up to 3-4 days to respond, and the grades for the weekly assignments were posted by Friday. Fizel asserts that to be an online educator, "you cannot be lazy, you must be more organized and better prepared to teach an online course than a face to face course". In addition, he explains that you have to be able to adapt to student time frames in order to seize educational opportunities. Online educators must answer questions and emails promptly, so the students know you care about their learning.
