This is our final week of EDTECH 522 and time to reflect on our learning experience during this course.
I've thoroughly enjoyed this class as it directly relates to my work and I'm able to apply what I've learned straight away.
There were two learning experiences that were significant to me this semester. Firstly I enjoyed being able to learn more about instructor presence and how to present yourself and your content in a way that engages learners. This is such an important component to delivering a successful online class so it was great to be able to get feedback from other classmates and practice being an online instructor in this setting. I wish we had more time to really delve into this as I had looked at research on this topic in other classes, but never had the opportunity to really apply it in a real life setting. Secondly I loved being able to build a course in Moodle. I really enjoy working in Learning Management Systems and so this was an activity I loved. I enjoyed being able to spend some more time exploring the different features and functions of Moodle and feel more confident in using this tool. I know that if I was to get a job that utilized Moodle I would feel quite confident that I could build a course in this system effectively.
One of the things I'm planning to do after this class is taking one of our classroom based courses and converting it to an online or blended class that would be available over one to two months. Hoping this can lead a change in our company to think about how courses are delivered and how we can cut down on travel costs of employees having to attend in person training. This will be a business case we will present to our director in the hope of piloting this course sometime next year.
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