During the pandemic many universities, schools, and government agencies had to quickly pivot to an online virtual learning platform. The impact of online training has altered the way we teach our students. My university had to transitioned from an in-residence course to a virtual platform. In the beginning we used WebEx and Zoom but due to limited capabilities we soon switched over to Microsoft Teams for Education. Using MS Teams was a bit challenging at first because no one knew how it worked and how we would deliver our training to our students. MS Teams offers a variety of features that makes it easy to use on a regular basis. Schools and agencies can customize the MS Teams template for their courses. I can collaborate with colleagues, students and faculty. As well as create assignments, share files and upload documents. Also, there are apps that are functional for the classroom.
Some of the features that MS Teams use are assignments, screensharing, chats, whiteboard, and the raise your hand features for participants. As well as group discussion and breakout room features.
I choose to talk about the three principles listed below from Reiser, & J.V Dempsey :
Motivation through Meaningful Goals
MS Teams can keep the students on track using the Insight App. Insight is a feature that provides real time analysis of students’ progress and activities within the course. Teachers are provided with data that is tailored to the student to ensure their emotional, social and academic needs are being met. The knowledge lets the teacher focus their time on areas needed for improvement to help the student thrive.
Motivation through Curiosity
Using MS Teams has been great for faculty in teaching our course. Currently in my PMT 4010 vilt we have a total of 42 students enrolled in our five-week program. One way we use curiosity is having guest speakers to come into the course and have open discussion on a particular subject. Recently we had a LTG Marion speak about how to define leadership in the military. The students all had their cameras on and used the raise your hand and chat functions to engage with each other and the guest speaker.
Motivation through Satisfying Outcomes
Creating a positive learning environment reliant on the faculty and students. Their relationship is a great way that MS Teams provides this is through the reinforcement of the positive feedback given with interactive whiteboard features. The whiteboard feature lets the students interact with each other and interact with the teacher. Another great feature is the polling option that lets the teachers create questions and then send them to the students to provide feedback about the session. Another great way to provide satisfying outcomes for the students in at the end of the course.
Overall, since using MS Teams for vilt learning it has proven to be a great platform for our courses that we provided through our university.
References: Reiser, & J.V Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and issues in instructional design and technology (4th ed.) New York, NY: Pearson
Adaptability
The pandemic created a platform for programs like Microsoft Teams and Zoom to thrive. The inability to meet live led to schools and corporations having to navigate online. This also requires these platforms to adapt and add new innovations to stay competitive (Baker & Phirangee, 2021). One characteristic that has lead to companies continuing to use virtual meeting platforms is it is open and accessible to all. This allows for two separate organizations from anywhere in the world to collaborate in real time.
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