Teacher Education in Online Classrooms: An Inquiry into Instructors’ Lived Experiences
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Abstract
Across Canada and around the world, online technologies are becoming widely used and accepted as effective modes of learning. This essay traces the initial forays into teaching online classes by three Faculty of Education professors at one small Canadian university and an instructional designer / teacher who joined part-way through the research journey. Included are our understandings of how our teaching practices evolved amidst initial uncertainties and expanding abilities, our renewed awareness of the importance of collegial support and encouragement, and the implications for future online teaching experiences. Our essay provides an intimate window into our online teaching journeys and captures specific moments we experienced at various stages in the development of our e-instructional practices. The account of our processes of becoming online teacher educators is supported by an interweaving of historical and current literature on pedagogy and e-learning, and serves to address the dearth of research into the processes educators undergo when engaged in online teaching. Les technologies offertes en ligne sont de plus en plus utilisées et acceptées comme mode d'apprentissage efficace au Canada et dans le monde. Le présent essai décrit une première incursion dans les classes d'enseignement en ligne de trois professeurs de la faculté d'éducation d'une petite université canadienne. Un concepteur de matériel pédagogique et enseignant s'est également joint à l'équipe au cours de la recherche. Cet essai porte sur notre compréhension de l'évolution de nos pratiques pédagogiques parmi les incertitudes initiales et l’acquisition graduelle de nouvelles capacités. Il porte également sur notre prise de conscience de l'importance du soutien et de l'encouragement des pairs, de même que sur les conséquences pour de futures expériences d'enseignement en ligne. Le présent essai constitue une fenêtre intime donnant sur notre expérience d'enseignement en ligne et fait état des moments particuliers que nous avons vécus à diverses étapes de l'évolution de nos pratiques technopédagogiques. La description des processus qui nous ont amenés à devenir des éducateurs enseignant en ligne est étayée par une combinaison de documentation historique et actuelle sur la pédagogie et l'apprentissage en ligne. Cette description vise à combler la pénurie de recherche sur les processus que suivent les éducateurs qui adoptent ce mode d’enseignement.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".