To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia. My objective was to become more skilled in facilitating learning in the area of providing care for a variety of populations; in this case, those with psychiatric symptoms.
Empathy, in course development, refers to an educator’s ability to understand the problems, needs, and desires a group of learners faces through research and inquisition.
If you have taught before, then you are familiar with the grumpy time of the semester. This is when the semester starts to feel long.
In the fall of 2018 in the United States, there were roughly 19,600,000 students enrolled in distance education courses (National Center for Education Statistics, 2022).
In his personal writings, Marcus Aurelius wrote, “People who labor all their lives but have no purpose are wasting their time—even when hard at work.”
The online classroom can be challenging when it comes to engagement and presence. Students often enter the online classroom nervous, not just about content but
I love teaching online. I love the challenge of moving a student from, “I am really nervous about this class!” to “Thank you for your