An Exceptional Online Instructor
Chapter 8 By Yemi Owolabi
Engagement with the learners
You can accomplish this engagement by carefully planning, preparing, and creating a supportive environment.
Be prepared
- Know your subject thoroughly
- have your materials handy
- test your technology
- Be ready to perform at your best
Plan Ahead
- what you want the students to learn at the end of the lesson?
- consider using a storyboard
- plan for the unexpected
- time the lesson
- know where the lesson leads
Creating supporting environment
- Use formative assessment
- create informal chats
- offer the students alternate ways to show that they have learned the lesson