Online Teaching Journal

  Cognitive load (Source: Google Image) Students and Cognitive load      When teaching online, reducing students' cognitive load is essential. ( Guyan, 2013)   This will assist in an easier understanding retaining of the information provided. When students come to the class and as instructors, we shouldn't assume that the information we provide them will be absorbed by them easily. Students are taking another 3-4 courses besides your course. Adding more information will add to the cognitive load. As an instructor, we need to design strategies that will allow reducing the cognitive load. These strategies could reduce the amount of content to be shared and how it is being disseminated.  Instructors need to be aware of the basics of the cognitive load theory. What cognitive load theory is that instructions or information should be provided in a manner that doesn't profuse the learner's mental capacity. If the information is given at once, then it will hav...

Community of Inquiry (Source: Google image) Creative Commons      This was the session where we got an insight into using Creative Commons (CC) (2017). CC is a non-profit organization that provides copyright licenses to share their work across various platforms and provides guidance on how this can be attributed. This is an interesting platform where media such as video, images and other sources can be accessed through Flickr, 500px, The New York Public library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Perez, 2017), If planning to use any images, a beta search engine is available here .      Learning about creative commons was helpful. Adding image and media, e.g. audio or video in the lecture notes or other contents, searching through creative commons will find CC licences images and other media types.