Managing your time when teaching online Video Lecture | Teach Online: A Comprehensive Approach for Teaching Online - Professional Skills

in this episode we look at the concept
of time in an online context we examine
some of the common myths and perceptions
and we offer some useful strategies for
time management you can save time online
by effective use of the technology
I don't think online teaching actually
saves time I don't think that's what
it's about it I think online learning
can save time for both teachers and
students because both parties can log on
when they know that they're at their
most productive I think a long time ago
I thought it was going to be time-saving
but I haven't found it to be time-saving
I think I wonder whether the powers that
be think it might be time saving what
one of the interesting questions over
the years is whether teaching and
studying online saves people time does
it save the student time does it save
the teacher time I think that's the
wrong question
technology is an amplifier of human
process if someone is ineffective in
what they're doing it will just amplify
that degree of ineffectiveness if
someone is effective and productive of
what they're doing then effective use of
technology will amplify that using
digital technologies works if your
pedagogy is a simple pedagogy if it
doesn't overlap it doesn't seem like
it's going to help it seems like it's
going to be more work and that's a
common refrain I haven't got time to do
an online one as well I haven't got time
to do the extra work that it takes to do
online because they don't understand how
it can reduce the workload what I think
the internet does when you use it
seriously in your teaching and learning
is it gives you more control over your
time I find it quite unusual that I can
sit in my own home and the flexibility
that I have over my own time it buys me
more time to think if I read a student's
response and message board
I might go away and make a cup of tea
reflect on it and then go back and
answer it actually a finally hasn't
affected it it's just changed how I use
the time I don't have to spend any more
time it's just different time whereas if
I had to mark folios I'd be stuck in a
for days on end marking them now I can
mark them in dribs and drabs at home or
at work or on the train with my computer
I don't necessarily have to be in a
particular space I can be anywhere where
I can connect to the internet I'm going
in for a shorter time period every day
and I consistently make it every day
during semester time and it really
requires not doing a block of kind of
one hour a week or three hours a week or
whatever it is depending on the number
of students it's about kind of a course
pinning the top where you have to be
there give small bits of feedback
regularly and that's much more
satisfying for the students because it's
that's a very present thing that I'm and
that mentoring thing you know I'm there
with them throughout the process
the biggest pitfall teaching online is
that your classroom is always with you
it's like having your blackberry there
you always feel compelled to check and
see if you've got an email the same if
you have an online classroom you're
sitting there you think I've got 15
minutes let's see what people are doing
I necessarily put boundaries around the
amount of time that I will spend online
in in the online environment I've seen
unfortunate staff members who are
willing to answer their emails and talk
to their online students 24 hours a day
I think that clearly is unsustainable
that's my real issue at the moment is
trying to work out a way in to cut down
the amount of time that I am online
initially what I say to colleagues is if
you're gonna start doing this it's going
to take double the time the first time
the second iteration or the second year
you'll be much more in control of it by
the third year it shouldn't be taking
you any extra time than it did before
when you teach online you have to
realize that the students won't be
sticking to the same time schedule when
you submit everything electronically but
what is an ideal time and often we make
it something like 9:00 a.m. on a Monday
so that students can use the weekend to
work but with the explicit flagging that
if you're going to ask for an extension
for example you make it before 4 o'clock
on a Friday if you use the internet to
shift time around in that way the
student can do the tasks when it suits
them rather than when it's just
scheduled in you can upload it before I
am and so there aren't really it's not
very strict and it's
yeah it can really you can manage it
around your life
you