In March 2020, when the pandemic changed the world forever, the way I delivered lectures and taught clinical skills came to a halt. It was evident that I had to change how I delivered my lectures to my students, and I had to be creative with new ways to assess clinical skills. Our program was defiantly not prepared to teach online, and there was a lot of resistance from other instructors, which put more pressure on those who were ready to leap into online teaching.\u00a0 Reading Bates book on Teaching in the digital age made me realize that there is no right or wrong way to teach online its more about the subject we teach and what we are trying to focus on as Bates stated, “The key shift is towards greater emphasis on skills, particularly knowledge management, and less on memorizing content. We need design models for teaching and learning that lead to developing the skills required in a digital age.\u201d (Bates 2015) In chapter 4, Bates discusses classes using lecture capture, recording lectures, and making them available for students to re-watch. He also discusses using a learning management system (LMSs) it allows instructors to present learning material to a large group of learners. Bates discusses the difference between LMS and in-person lectures, with LMS you can access the information anytime over the internet and they are mainly asynchronous. In-person lectures are held at a specific time with all the students together. \u00a0I have to agree with his thought in a physical classroom environment. As a teacher, I have had to modify my lesson plans to adjust to the different learning styles of the learners. I could recognize if a learner needs another explanation with body language or with the look on their faces. \u00a0With LMS it is harder to gauge students learning styles and engagement. I feel that I still have a lot to learn in regards to online teaching and using tools to teach to different learning styles within a group of learners online.<\/p>\n
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References\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Bates, T. (2015).\u00a0Chapter 4.3 The ADDIE Model,\u00a0<\/a>Chapter 4.7 \u2018Agile\u2019 Design: flexible designs for learning,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Chapter 1Trends in Open Education<\/a>. In\u00a0Teaching in the digital age<\/em><\/a>. BCcampus.\u00a0http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/teachinginadigitalage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In March 2020, when the pandemic changed the world forever, the way I delivered lectures and taught clinical skills came to a halt. It was evident that I had to change how I delivered my lectures to my students, and I had to be creative with new ways to assess clinical skills. Our program was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt524"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0152\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0152\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0152\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0152\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0152\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0152\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0152\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0152\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0152\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0152\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h1>\n
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