1. How to avoid Student Isolation
1.1. Sync Teaching
1.1.1. collaboration through websites such as mindmeister
1.1.1.1. Provides a collaborative learning environment
1.1.2. Connecting with video conference
1.1.2.1. asychn
1.1.2.2. synch
1.1.2.3. Collaboration through group video conferencing
1.1.2.3.1. skype
1.2. Async Teaching
1.2.1. phone calls
1.2.1.1. Set by appointment (possibly mandatory)in order to offer any help with the course and their online experience
1.2.2. e-mail
1.2.2.1. regular personalized e-mail correspondence by professor
2. Technology
2.1. Learning to use the e-learning software (portal)
2.1.1. Training courses offered through company
2.2. Keeping up with new online approaches
2.2.1. awareness of new devices/technology
2.2.2. subscribe to electronics magazines/journals
2.2.3. avoiding the lecture
2.2.3.1. QUOTE (Page 27-28): This so-called lecture method of teaching has attracted much criticism during the last generation. Detractors deplore the lecture method as uninspired, nonparticipatory, unengaging, and nonproductive of learning." - Classroom of One
2.2.3.2. QUOTE (Page 27-28): Perhaps lecturing has fallen on hard times mostly because the entertainment media have raised up a generation without patience and with the attention span of a flea." - Classroom of One
2.3. Technology availability for students
2.3.1. Course requirements specific to the needed computers and accessories
2.4. Modifying/Creating/Using e-curriculum
2.4.1. QUOTE (Page 17): "Lectures or some cybernetic variation of them will always play a role in education, but those in education must develop the capacity to take full advantage of new technologies that enable them to enhance the learning of their students." - Classroom of One