Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Challenges, thrills and spills

Challenges we face include dealing with the large volume of students. It is not uncommon to receive 300 emails plus a day, with around 150 phone calls.
Teachers can get "tired" of always saying the same thing, which isn't hard to do when you are dealing with 6,000 students. Supporting the teachers to remain fresh and motivated can be a challenge. I often say we are an "Educational Call Centre", but it is hard for teachers to make that transition.

There are many thrills to be had in online delivery, I love the way things are always changing and ways of improving are always appearing. Reviewing our resources and how they are structured and presented, trying new technology to encourage studentst to interact with each other and engage with their learning, providing our students with links and relationships with our teachers, creating excellent and engaging webseminars and presentations, all are great fun and keep us all excited about our work.
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  1. Ingrid Henning Loeb18 April 2013 at 07:55

    Hi Laura! Thank you for your photo series and the information about you online learning education. I know the transission you are talking about, a few years ago I was only teaching on campus and now we have a VET teacher education with very much distance-based studies. It's a challenge to strucuture and to provide a content in a different way.
    How much/how often do your teachers meet their students? And the students you have, do they come from all over Australia?

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  2. Unknown21 April 2013 at 05:23

    Hi Laura!
    This was very interesting!
    Do the students have any workplace-based learning?
    How do you do then?
    Do you visit them or do you do even that on line?
    Are this system only for born australien or you can come from an another country and study like this?

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  3. Unknown21 April 2013 at 05:28

    Btw :)
    How do you have the time to answer 300 mail plus 150 phone call a day?
    How do you keep the good mood for the last one in a day :) ?
    Do you have any break were you help each other to keep the good spirit up?

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  4. Unknown23 April 2013 at 08:45

    Hallo! Could it be possible that all teachers have so many emails and phone calls? I wonder as well as Ingrid on how often students are in school? How often have students practice in preschools?

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  5. Unknown25 April 2013 at 05:55

    So intressting!

    What is the best part with this kind of online education?

    What is the most commen way of studing in Australia, online education or ordinary way of education with face to face classes?

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  6. lizzyi26 April 2013 at 02:58

    I feel for you with all the emails to answer and have empathy for the whole " call centre" feel :)

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