Being an online teacher
Samuel Bacharach of eCornell talks about the roles and responsibilities of an online teacher, especially in courses which are more than just stuffing compliance procedures.
You can get away with having a lousy teacher, or even no teacher, if the e-learning material before you is simple. However, Bacharach teaches advanced strategy, such as how to identify resistors and allies within an organization, and how to acquire managerial competence. This is high-level stuff; it requires the right course content and supporting pedagogy.
"Put in the hands of the wrong teacher, e-learning is deadly," Bacharach says. "You have to have skill at editing, pacing, coming in and out, raising the drama, knowing when to give a case study. You have to be able to tell a story." Without these abilities, he believes, a teacher is doomed regardless of environment.
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