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Day 3
What do you think is the most important qualities for a mentor to have?

What do you need in a mentor?

What qualities do you feel you possess to become a mentor?

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(After the above information is discussed by the instructor)

Teams get together and discuss their answers to the above questions. Then they need to combine
their responses on a large paper flipbook to share with the large group.
(In sharing the information with the group the team with the most cohesive answers will win
points)

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What is a faculty learning community?

What are the behaviors identified in Part 1?

(Have a large group discussion on effective ways to communicate with management at times
of evaluations)

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(After instructor presents above information)

Write down three different sources that you can use for either making your own lectures or
finding other peoples

(As a large group review on the computers the basics of where to leave feedback, put in grades,
post class discussions and ect.)

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School Messenger: Used so students can communicate live when they are online at the same
time.
Pinterest: Used so students can share articles and links that they found helpful or enjoyable
Skype: Used to communicate with each other and see them over webcam. This tool is
especially good for conference calling as a team.
(After instructor goes over above information)
Teams get together as make a list of other student collaboration resources. Then the team
will present them to the group.
(Team with the most resources will win points)

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Online education provides the opportunity for people for all different
walks of life to learn together, because of this there are often times
many cultural differences. There are ethnic differences, life style
differences, and almost every kind of different in people that one can
think of. Most of the time one of the only things that distance learners
will have in common are that they are taking the same class or
Cultural differences in
program.

education can be a
challenge; however,
when one is working in
distance education
those differences can
either be very
noticeable or not at all.
The best way to combat
cultural difference is to
in force that everyone
has the right to their
own opinion but
everyone must be
respectful of each other.

When working in
distance learning one is
often dealing with a
variety of different
experience in various
aspects of the
education. Because of
this as a professor one
must design the
instruction in such a
way that can impact all
students with different
experience.

Nontraditional learners
bring a lot to the table
when it comes to life
experience. Having this
involved in the
classroom can help the
students learn from
each other and their
experiences.

(After instructor discusses above information)

Have a class discuss about how they think cultural differences can affect the classroom
environment first in a negative way then in a positive way.
Disadvantages of Synchronous and Asynchronous Training
(Brock, 2014)

Synchronous Training
In this type of training the main disadvantage
Asynchronous Training
unlike Asynchronous training is the time
In this type of training one of the disadvatage is
restraint on the faculty members and the
that it often times uses a variety of
students because they have to meet in person
technologies, so if a student is not up to date
it is more difficult to work around each groups on the various technologies used it can be hard
schedules. The next disadvantage is that a
for them to understand what to do in the class.
course can vary from teacher to teacher. If the
Second, is that a student has to stay self
teacher is not good at speaking in public or
motivated to learn in this environment because
presenting material to the students it can be
they often do not have the accountability that
very poor or visa vera. This makes it hard for a an face to face class has. Last is that it is more
school to determine if all the students are
difficult to communicate in the online
recieve the same kind of education. Also
classroom. Because everyone can get online at
because the course is mainly instructor based
different times it takes more times to contact
and lead they must keep at the "middle of the
instructors, learning team members, and
road" pace so that can be frustrating for
partipate in a meaningful conversation. One
students if it is to fast or to slow. Last is often
must be able to plan ahead for these kinds of
times in instructor focused classrooms there is
times constraints.
less opportunity for students to participate and
learn from each other.

Advantages to Synchronous and Asynchronous Training

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(Brock, 2014)

Synchronous Training
This type of training is more of the in
class training. It requires both student
and teacher to be present at the time fo
the instruction. This training can help
instructors reach multiple students with
the same ideas in one classroom session.
It often easy to talk to the instructor
about questions that the student may
have on the content. Also with this form
of teaching a instructor can get to know
their students in a more personal way
making it easier to know when they may
need more help. The students are also
more welcome to getting to know each
other and therefore setting up social
networks themselves.

Asynchronous Training
This type of training is set up so that the
instructor and the student do not have to
be present at the same time for the
instruction to take place. Often times it is
the normal online school environment
and it makes it more convinient for
students and teachers to fit into their
schedule. It gives the faculty member and
opportunity to use a variety of different
programs to make the instruction more
interesting for the students. It keeps cost
low for the school and also makes it so
students can learn more at their own
pace.

(After instructor goes over above information)

Discuss in a large group what class style the faculty member are used to teach and learning in.
Then discuss how they can use their skills in both categories

Internet
Issues

Students may have trouble with their home internet. The main
policy is to be to find a different place to use the internet until
their personal internet is available. Allow a 24 hour grace period
for technical issues; however, in order to not have the policy
taken advantage of is to in force that this can only happen once
in the class per student.

Unable to
access the
classroom

Students may have technical issues in accessing the student

website. First, the student needs to contact technical support to
fix the issue. If it gets in the way of them turning in an
assignment then they need to have technical support send a
notice to the instructor of the issue. The 24 hour grace period
will then be active and will follow the same rule as above.

Unable to
navigate the
classroom

Students when they first start at a school online may have a hard
time finding their way around the classroom. First, a faculty
member should create a video to show them around the
classroom. This will help combat confusion from the beginning.
Next the professor needs to make it clear that they can be
contacted if they need help.

(After the instructor discusses the above information)

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Have teams get together and brainstorm different possible technical issues that their
students become in contact with. Teams will present this information to the class.
Next have the teams get back together and come up with 10 different creative
solutions to combat these issues. The team with the most creative solution will win
points.
St

Learner feedback will consist of feedback

given on all graded assignments. If there
is an immediate need for feedback the
instructor will send the student a private
message.

Lack of participation or engagement

Lack of participation will be handled by
the first week grading the student on
their participation and having that reflect
the lack of participation. In the feedback
the professor will tell them what they did
wrong and how to improve it. The next
week if they student has not participated
by day 3 of the week then the professor
will email them to ask them if everything
is going ok.

Cyber-bullying and Inappropriate posts

will be handled by one warning. After
that they will be reported to the school
and warned again. The third instance
they will be removed from the class

ADA learners and associated strategies

The protocol to work with ADA learners is
to accommodate their disabilities. First,
the facility member will be informed
what students have disabilities and what
ones do not. For those with disabilities
the faculty will also be informed of what
disability they have. After that any
assistance the student needs will be
based off of their personal plan for
education.

(After above information is presented by instructor)

Students will be given a assessment on all the information that they covered over the
three days. This assessment will be mostly multiple choice testing specific topics that
need to be remembered about the course. At the end of the test the students will take a
survey about the training and how well they liked it.

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