Personalized approaches in online learning

Posted by in Uncategorized Oct 28th, 2004

From Reading Online, via Distance Educator comes a study about the nature of instruction for an online course. It might give some of you the idea of how your own courses function, as well as possible areas of concern if you are thinking of enrolling in an online university program.

The study described in this article explored the nature of instruction in an online course in a teacher education program. Participants included the university instructor and 16 classroom teachers enrolled in a graduate-level literacy assessment course. Data included online bulletin board messages, e-mail messages, informal interviews, chat transcripts, the instructor's teaching journal, and all modules constructed for the online course. Constant-comparative analysis revealed instructional content related to (a) the course focus of assessment and instruction for struggling readers, and (b) how to learn effectively in the online environment. Specific categories within these areas emerged with respect to the design of the course and the instructional interactions between the instructor and the teachers.

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