That’s the advice Mary Ann Reeley wants to give other online teaching professionals and students alike. A professor at Eastern Gateway Community College, Reeley has been working in the online space since earning her MBA at Strayer University almost a decade ago. About 90% of her work toward that degree, she estimates, was completed online. It was an experience that has been invaluable to her teaching and her students.
That’s the advice Mary Ann Reeley wants to give other online teaching professionals and students alike. A professor at Eastern Gateway Community College, Reeley has been working in the online space since earning her MBA at Strayer University almost a decade ago. About 90% of her work toward that degree, she estimates, was completed online. It was an experience that has been invaluable to her teaching and her students.
“It was my first time teaching a course and I was teaching mature students, working professionals,” Talton remembered during a recent online interview. “At the time, I was working as a statistician for the government and not very happy there. One of my students said to me, ‘You are in the wrong job, you should teach.’ When we all went out together after the last class, as I walked up to the table, all of my students started to clap. I have never looked back.”
“It was my first time teaching a course and I was teaching mature students, working professionals,” Talton remembered during a recent online interview. “At the time, I was working as a statistician for the government and not very happy there. One of my students said to me, ‘You are in the wrong job, you should teach.’ When we all went out together after the last class, as I walked up to the table, all of my students started to clap. I have never looked back.”
Pedagogy shapes every kind of learning from early childhood education to college-level classes. User guides, text books, courses, programs and curriculums are all created through an understanding of pedagogies. Choices made about structures, assessments and assignments are made according to what will support learning best in each context. In online learning especially, pedagogical choices make all the difference between an experience that truly engages learners and one that fails to support even basic information retention.
Pedagogy shapes every kind of learning from early childhood education to college-level classes. User guides, text books, courses, programs and curriculums are all created through an understanding of pedagogies. Choices made about structures, assessments and assignments are made according to what will support learning best in each context. In online learning especially, pedagogical choices make all the difference between an experience that truly engages learners and one that fails to support even basic information retention.
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