Strategies For Implementing Online Coaching
Types Of Online Classes, Tools And Techniques
Oct 1, 2009
Conceptualizing and implementing an online coaching class is a great way to share one’s expertise and teach others. The internet provides a wonderful platform to connect teachers with students and also provides a number of ways to enrich the learning experience. Primarily, there are two ways in which an online coaching session is delivered – email based or website based.
Setting Up An Email Based Online Class
A coaching session can be effectively delivered over email. The only requirement is that one must have a list of email ids of prospects. One must design a series of 5 or 7 or 10 emails which will carry the contents of the lessons and set them up in an autoresponder. This will ensure that the lessons are sent to the students at pre-determined times. An email coaching class is the easiest to develop and implement and does not need any other infrastructure. If the students wish to communicate with the tutor, they can use the medium of sending queries through email again.
Website Based Advanced Coaching Classes
An online coaching class can also be delivered through a website. One example of this is the HP online classes. All the lessons of the class are put up on HTML pages and are accessed by the students through a login id and password. This ensures that only the registered students are able to access the course contents. A definite time frame is given to the students to access the lesson after which they are supposed to move to the next lesson. Reminders are sent to them via emails.
Tools And Techniques For Enhancing Online Learning
There are several online tools which can be used to enhance the interaction between tutors and their students. These include discussion forums, frequently asked questions, tests and surveys.
- Discussion Forum: This is a great means to encourage peer to peer interaction wherein one student can help to solve the difficulties of another student. This is of great help when the records of the discussions are archived and are accessed by students of the next batch.
- FAQ: A page which answers all the questions which are commonly asked by students such as what to do if a lesson is missed, where to find the solutions to the tests and how to register for the next course and so on can be published on the website.
- Tests: Evaluation of the students for their learning in the course can also be conducted online. Tests can be put up as multiple choice questions which students can answer within a defined time frame.
- Survey: A tutor can also set up a survey to collect feedback from his students and also suggestions on improvement.
Online courses can become a highly profitable venture for people who have expertise which they want to teach to others. If students are satisfied they would look forward to the next course offering and thus the teacher student relationship keeps on getting stronger.
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