How to improve syncsession

 Increase instructor’s presence
 Increase students’ presence
 Building online learning community
 University mission
 Enhance instruction
 Questions and answers
 Clarifying and reinforcing
 Exam review

 Fixed format: pre-designed questions for
students and instructors
 Bulk of the syncsession time is devoted to
answering those questions by students
 Students found it tedious (pasting answers)
 Instructors found it mechanical (copy and
paste)
 No depth
 No dent on students’ learning

 Interactive and engaging
 To the point (What is the most important?)
 Social: sharing real nursing practice experience
that is related to content
 Valuable for students (help them clarify
questions and prep for exams)
 Students centered or led, instead of instructor
centered
 Delivering the University mission

 Highlighting learning content
 Using graphics and charts
 List the most
important/interesting/controvercial questions
for discussions
 Tip: convert ppt files into jpeg images before
loading them into Collaborate

 What do you want your students bring home?
 Focus on only a few critical questions or
concepts
 Don’t cover all the questions (due to time
restraint and our brain capacity)
 One or two fundamental thing to take away
 May ask students to take turns to prepare those
questions, instructor offer real time comments

 Each student pick a question and relate it to
their work environment
 Sharing their real life experience that is related
to the learning concepts
 Take turns, everybody has to share
 Apply concepts into real nursing practice
 Instructors share their own experience

 Clarifying and reinforcing
 Questions and answers
 If no questions from students, call students to
answer questions….
 When students sweat, they learn! Or next time
they will be more prepared!

 Provide sample questions to do exam review
 Look at the previous administered exams
results and identify the most challenging
questions.
 Consider this scenario:

-Student: what is on the exam?
-Instructor: I don’t know. The lead instructor
fixes the exam questions.

 A mix of all five models, use them at different
times
 The best model is having no model at all
 It is up to you!

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