Why online classes are not as effective as face to face?

Why online classes are not as effective as face to face?

One of the participants asked a question in the teaching professors virtual conference ongoing now.
The question was that how to make online teaching effective. From the conference, there is limited info about online teaching.

I replied.
If teaching is focused on delivering knowledge by understanding, effectiveness would drop significantly for online. This is because learning knowledge by understanding doesn’t require thinking. When thinking is not involved, it is like training a dog. Dogs can understand human signals and words and follow instruction once trained. The problem is that you cannot train dogs online. 

I continued.
To make either online or face to face teaching effective, thinking function of the human brain has to be tackled. And the thinking process includes data collection, analysis, prediction and decision making.

The person replied.
How to teach students to learn knowledge and thinking at the same time.

I replied again.
It is very long story but to make it short;

1. Ask students to collect data and post before class.
2. Check if students have conceptualized the knowledge. If students were asked ‘what is an apple?’ and not able to answer, the student know apple as knowledge but not conceptualized. Without conceptualization, all the knowledge related to apple being delivered, students wouldn’t be able to digest them easily.
3. Meanwhile, add lecture materials that are missing from students’ data. 
4. Ask questions to make connections among the concept students brought and add more from lecture materials.

These steps have to be carried out prior to proceed to thinking. Thinking can be started by asking questions. But there are different types of questions. Questions that inhibits brain to think and questions that promote brain to think. To have more details, find information from PonderEd.ca.

Teachers and professors teaching students are working to increase effectiveness in students’ learning. But many faces difficulties. Because of this, many focuses on evaluation rather than teaching methods.

When teaching is focused on thinking process, online and face to face wouldn’t make big differences.

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