Final Reflection!

Wow, what a good experience this was for me. This was a class I had much interest in since the beginning, in my opinion the best class of the current semester. It's interesting how sometimes one can learn more on his own with very little, but important nonetheless guidance from the teacher. For the first time since I started taking this type of courses I got the opportunity to work with a partner, and fortunately she was a very responsible one. This a course that I'll always will come back to and I have already saved all the documents and the excercises in my computer and USB, (that's the reason why I didn't stack up my portfolio that much) because this the future of teaching and I'll soon be imparting this class if or when I'm given the chance. I hope I get the opportunity in the near future to keep taking this type of courses, because they appeal to me quite a bit, and I want to get as much as experience as I can so I can be a good E-tutor.
Special thanks to all my e-mates, e-tutor and of course my e-parter(Vanessa) who always did an outstanding job doing the activities and delivering them on time.

Reflection of Unit 3

Unit 3 was very important to me because it taught the human aspect of being an e-tutor. I learned a lot of ways of how to handle different types of students and how to work on my own personal development, students assessment and Feedback. Something very crucial was also mentioned, this being the changing model of teaching and how teaching is no longer the same and how we as teachers must be always prepared and ready for any changes. Overall a very interesting and insightful unit.

Reflection of unit 2

In this unit I learned familiar concepts that I didn't know about online learning, concepts, that if we want to become instructors of the formenitoned course. These concepts are well known around the online community and will continue to flourish as time passes on. I also got the opportunity to work with a partner for the first time, to build exercises for an online course and got a glimpse of all the steps a tutor needs to take to design an effective activity. Finally there was also some interesting input on distance and online communication that is very useful for students and teachers alike.

Reflection of unit 1

This unit taught me a lot of things I didn't know, like the differences between distance and open education. It was very important for me to learn that they're similar but not the same, open Education lacks of structure and it's more flexible for the students, which allows the to be more creative when handing in their projects. Distance Education focuses more on technology and instructional systems that deliver education to the students who are not physically there.
Hardly any communication is needed, but in both cases feedback is obviously required by the teacher.
I also learned some important differences between traditional education and distance education, as already mentioned distance education is focused more on technology. Traditional Education requires constant assitance to a certain classroom or place, having contact with teachers in classmates, while in distance education you may never have to see your classmates and teacher, also the way of delivery and the tools we use for interaction are the characteristics that also differentiate these two.