“The Interrelationship of Encouragement and Confrontation with Online Education”

PowerPoint Presentation

Donna Eckstein, PhD
Assistant Professor
San Diego Continuing Education

Brief Description:
The session is based on interrelated teaching skills of encouragement and confrontation. Instructors can enhance student performance and online skills by encouraging effective creative and critical thinking skills, college level writing and research skills, active participation, as well as time management skills with early discussion postings and planning for assignments. Paradoxically, interventions to enhance student’s performance with online skills may also be needed to discourage and/or set limits with ineffective skills such as plagiarism, poor writing skills, inactive participation, as well as a time management skills that lead to late postings and lack of planning with assignments. While the concepts will be addressed individually, there is a synergistic effect that takes place in these two online teaching interventions.

What three specific things will attendees learn from your session?

• Specific skills to increase student (and instructor!) online effectiveness and academic performance.
• The synergistic effect of encouragement and confrontation as teaching interventions in an online environment.
• The interrelationship and identification of motivation and resistance to enhancing instructor skills in an online environment.