Online Class

How can we improve the online live class?

Well,overall I think we did good on our online session on April 15; all the presentors did pretty good on their presentations and we did a lot of discussion and cover several topics. As I have already mentioned in the preious post that I really like to
attend class online for the seminar classes like 830, 801 or 800 class because I don't really like to talk in class due to my bad English.Actually, even the classes in Thailand, I didn't talk much also. Lots of good thing about online class: when we took a 15
minutes break I started cooking and was continue with it while I was listening to the presentation.That 's cool! I put my laptop on the counter top and was able to chat while I was waiting for bringing the soup the boil. I replaced the traveling time by doing my regular stuff and other classes' works. However, there were several issues about the synchronous class room and I think mostly are the technical problems like audio, video, how to use some functions and features.And one thing that bothered me was when a lot of people were chating in the same time because text went so fast and sometime couldn't tell who talked to whom. I think these problem can be fixed by we have to learn about the program and all equipment needed before we start using it but I think our class was someting like on the job training as well because we were learning by doing. I cannot answer the question on how can we improve the online live class by now because I am still thinking about it. I hope we will have a better technology for distant learning in the near future but cost must be another issue.