A Close to IPT 511

A few weeks ago, IPT 511 came to a close. For the foreseeable future, I probably won’t be participating in any WELPS courses through BSU and reporting on my discoveries. How I intend to make up for those blog posts will be addressed in a future post, but for now I’d like to report on what I learned in the recent course.

As for what was learned in the last class, Synchronous Learning in the Workplace… well, nothing much. If I did have to point to specific take-aways from the course, here they are:

• Synchronous learning platforms and the technologies surrounding it are not a replacement for sound instructional design. When teaching online, you still have to adhere to instructional design principles in order to deliver quality instruction.
• You must think of ways to interact with the learner, create activities to engage them and provide opportunities to apply what they are learning wherever possible in synchronous learning.
• Enable social presence wherever possible in synchronous learning sessions.

It will be a while before I return to complete the WELPS certificate as my experience during the course was different from the previous courses. With a break, I hope to recharge and re-engage as soon as possible.

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