Lessons Learned
Challenge to instructor’s style:
- Give correctly-paced lectures without as many feedback cues from audience.
- Need to keep to the point: digressions, which may be helpful in a standard lecture, tend to lose students.
- Video and occasional face-to-face meetings important for “bonding” process.
Stable network environment is essential.
- Technical support includes network administrator and remote lab technician.
- 30 Kbps minimum for audio. 100 Kbps minimum for video.
Local mentor is also important keeping students “on track”.
Various improvements were added to the Tango applications as the courses progressed. One was to add intructor’s “pointer” to WebWisdom.