Lessons Learned from Teaching Web-Based Courses: The 7-Year Itch

Abstract

The major challenges for faculty relate to the creation of a stimulated learning environment for communication and interaction among the students, course preparation, workload, time management. Additional challenges are the methods of classroom discussions, teaching methods, responding to students, and teaching a 2-unit clinical component on-line. For students, issues of learning styles, motivation, and class participation are discussed. Results of the students' responses to a 10-item Likert-type course evaluation tool as well as issues for future web educators are presented.