In the past few years, online teaching has become more and more popular in our country thanks to its convenience, diversity, and suitable for the needs of the majority of students and learners. The tips accumulated in the article below will help improve the effectiveness of your online course, which we believe provides the best support for both teachers and learners.
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The drawbacks of online teaching method:
1. Limit interaction and exchange between teachers and learners
When going to traditional classrooms, students and teachers will exchange and interact face-to-face. If there are any problems with the lesson, students can ask questions and be given feedback immediately. In addition, teachers can also observe the learning and acquisition process of students through monitoring lectures in class.
With online teaching methods, this interaction and idea exchange is done through supporting tools such as chat box, messaging, or audio sending, etc.
Interaction between you and students is limited
2. Ineffective with students who lack initiative and self-discipline
Because students have more options in choosing the time and space to study, if they don’t take the initiative, learning will not be effective. In case of going to class, the teacher can be in charge of reminding, asking students to concentrate and complete the lesson. As for online teaching methods, the whole process requires self-discipline of students.
3. Unsynchronized facilities
Depending on the conditions and the needs of each student, investing in equipment for online learning such as phones, tablets, laptops as well as internet services is extremely different from one another. Whilst participating in online teaching sessions, students might, by some chances, not be able to keep up with lectures because of technical errors. Therefore, sometimes online learning will be interrupted,which not only reduces the quality of lectures but also distracts students.
II. What needs to be done for online teaching methods to be effective?
1. Applying a wide range of technologies
Information technology (IT) is being widely applied in the field of education and training. Instead of using only one form of online learning, you can experiment with many other websites, software and applications. Thanks to the actual experience, you will be able to choose the most effective and suitable online teaching method for your students. On the other hand, the learning process also becomes effortless and more engaging.
2. Create initiative from both sides of the teacher – the learner
To ensure that online teaching methods bring practical results, both teachers and learners need to be proactive and self-disciplined. On the part of learners, it is necessary to clearly define the goals of participating in courses, establish a habit of concentration, attend lessons on time, take notes by themselves to increase the effectiveness of knowledge acquisition. On the part of the teacher, it is necessary to encourage the exchange, discussion, and regularly adjust the content to increase the interest of the students.
3. Innovating teaching method
In regular classrooms, many teachers still apply a one-way teaching method, which mainly focuses on giving lectures, limiting the interaction between teachers and students, and among students. But when switching to online, face-to-face exchanges and discussions need to be increased to ensure that students firmly grasp knowledge and focus on learning. In addition, depending on the characteristics of each subject, teachers can adjust the method of assignment and review to help increase learners’ interest.
4. Archiving lectures
There are two reasons why you need to archive lectures: first, to ensure that students, due to technical problems, cannot participate directly nor miss lessons; secondly, helping students learn and review themselves better because the interaction and direct exchange with teachers is quite limited.
In addition to online teaching videos, teachers should also include essential supporting materials such as lecture slides, documents and reference content.
5. Follow up and support students
Because of learning through online channels, student care services cannot be conducted directly as with traditional education. This student support process can be routed through channels such as email, text messages or calls. You need to make sure that the students are following the content closely and have no problems acquiring knowledge while taking the course.
III. The most effective online teaching methods
Currently, under the support of technology, online teaching forms become very diverse. Basically, you can put them into the following three groups
1. Online course on e-learning platform
Teachers and lecturers will design the curriculum, make a teaching plan for the entire course, and prepare all materials, content and video lectures. These courses will be traded through e-learning platforms.
Learners after registering for membership on online education platforms can freely choose the courses and programs they want. They can choose to study at any beginning and at any time.
Teaching through video platforms, online chat
2. Teaching through video platforms, online chat
Unlike pre-prepared courses, online teaching via video will be conducted in real time. Both teachers and students need to participate in the online classroom at a time and be able to communicate and interact with each other.
With this form, the lecture content may not be perfect, but it creates interaction, helping students absorb the content more effectively.
3. Online tutoring form
Online tutoring is a form of one-on-one online teaching. Online tutoring also has a similar educational model, only the instruction is done online. Normally, with this form, the tutor will only prepare about 30% of the teaching content in advance. The rest, depending on the situation and needs of students, will make adjustments and supplements to increase the actual effectiveness after each lesson.
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