After going through the class discussion and peers’ fantastic presentations, I found out that the online course will definitely play a crucial role in the future instructional setting. From my point of view, however, when it comes to the proportion of content delivered online, I am inclined to prefer the blended/hybrid courses rather than online courses.
Admittedly, online courses benefit learners a lot, such as offering more flexible, extensive, and affordable learning environment. All the course content will be available online, so we are able to grasp the information any time anywhere. Further, there are face-to-face meetings in which learners have to spend three hours per week in class. Thus, I believe that online courses are capable of overcoming geographic and time barriers.
As an international student on campus, however, I prefer blended courses to online courses, for there is a significant difference between face-to-face and online instruction. R685, for example, is a typical case of blended course; we regularly have face-to-face meetings every week, which is helpful for my skills of making presentations and engaged with peers in English. Obviously, face-to-face interaction is totally different from online interaction: in terms of the weekly group discussion, while I have come up with other ideas and thoughts, I can immediately have a discussion with peerss. Above all, we can easily change seats to join other groups’ discussion. This is what we can’t do easily in online course; while I came up with new ideas, I might have to spend times sending my group emails, and then waiting for their feedback.
In addition to face-to-face meetings, Professor Bonk always brings much first-handed information and valuable knowledge into the class. Being an international student for the first year(not including the one year in Columbus, Ohio when I was ten years old), I truly need enough time to digest what I have learnt that night. Personally, while I enjoyed my peers’ reflections and interactions on the oncourse forum, I really learned a lot from their invaluable thoughts as well. As far as I am concerned, writing is sometimes better than speaking in that it allows one to come up with more thoughtful ideas and to reflect on extensive discussion, which will be of great assistance for me to understand better what I confuses me.
Finally, I find that for the blended course, the online part appropriately complements face-to-face meetings. The social ice breaker, for instance, was used to introduce ourselves and get to know each other, preventing peers from being too shy to introduce themselves. Further, in terms of my poor English skills, I know I need to catch up with peers through diligent works; therefore, I have not only been trying to enhance my English speaking, but also English writing skills as much as possible. Interestingly, I have found that browsing peers’ comments is an invaluable source as it allows me to imitate the writing style of native English speakers.
Hi, Jason, we talked a lot about blended course and full online course, and I myself just like you, not get used to the online course, and personally speaking, I quite like the blended course,maybe it is for the reason now we are on campus, so we might think since we are here now, why cannot we take the face to face course, but what if we are off campus, maybe we may feel it is more convinient, and I was wondering if there full online course in taiwan for university students? do they have some students who is off campus?
回覆刪除Hi...nice job on the blog Jason.
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