Online Learning Reflection

Throughout this semester, I have learned a lot about online learning and it advantages and disadvantages. Specifically, I learned about the views of online learning from a students perspective as well as that of an educator. The differences in opinion of online learning between these two parties were extremely profound. I realized that student 's (particularly older students) have a negative view of online learning, while educators, typically have a positive outlook on online learning. Students typically view it as impersonal. Students also miss out on a teacher actually knowing what part of a particular concept they are struggling with. The teacher, therefore are not able to break down that concept for a student to be able to progress …show more content…
It was not very applicable for the presentation methods that we used. While making my final product, I was under the impression that our presentation would be formatted as the traditional presentation style where each student would present individually in front of the class. The quick teach that I did was to present the advantages and disadvantages of online learning by putting my audience in the shoes of the student and the educator, rather than spitting off the consensus that I came to from doing research. The first portion of the quick teach was to allow a volunteer to watch a two minute video twice on how to tie a bow tie, and see if they could perform the task. After that, I would try and teach the volunteer how to tie a bow tie with hands on, in person help for the same allotted 4 minutes. I ran this experiment with my roommates the night before presentations, just to be sure I could teach it in four minutes, and found that they were both unable to do it simply from watching a video, but were able to master it in the four minutes of me teaching them. The final step of my quick teach was to compare the advantages and disadvantages of online learning for the student and do the same for the teacher. The things that my roommates said following this activity was consistent with y research