A good comunication online

Students in online classes are like any normal kind of student, there are different types but there is something special about them. Instead of having problems of communication between students, we risk to problems with communication between student teacher relationship. Since we have a distance between teacher student and teacher we can see that the approach to each students is very different to a in class student. Students in distance class must be an authonomus student that seeks new knowledge and wants to learn, it doesnt matter if its in class or not, individual or group. That is what a distance learner must be, even though we have students that dont have those characteristics. And since we have different types we have to look at that and be careful with our students. It is the duty of the teacher to identify thestudents even when the course is online or distance.
     
    It is important to see the types of students that we have because there is many problems that could present in the course of a distance course. There are different aspects that could affect a learner, us teachers must be prepared to solve them and help the students to improve and get past any obstacle. For example, while having a distance between teacher and student we can see that the student can feel alone or left aside by the teacher. Another example would be when a student feel that the distance from the teacher make him feel that he cant ask questions to him or approach to him. The learner can feel that the teacher is only there to give work or texts to read. On the other hand, we can have students that feel dependent to the teacher and needs to have reminders, once again that shouldnt be a distance learner but we can have students like those. Those students have trouble on sending work on time or looking for the information in a correct form. Finally, we can have learners that need motivation. Those students are a focal point in our distance courses because it could happen to any learner and that frustrates students, this makes a distance course very hard for those leaerners.

      We as teacher must be able to solve this problems it is our responsibility. There is a very simple way to solve it, and that is called communication. We can use different types of communication to avoid or solve all the problems that we mentioned before. Let´s beggin with the most common type of distance communication. Via e-mail, this type of communication can be very helpful to have a personal communication and talk directly with any learner. With the e-mail we can solve problems as reminders to authority dependent students, and avoid the students feeling lonely. Another communication is using an online plataform, to communicate in a group form letting them learn not only from the teacher but also from another group of learners that want to get the same knowledge that he or she does. This can help him with the loniless feeling, the motivation keeping and the reminders for the dependent students. And finally a distance course could be balanced with in class meetings to improve the communcation, confidence and, in general, the whole relationship between students and teacher online. Having some meeting would help avoid the problems mentioned before talking about all of them. Having a good relationship like this will make the learners more open to a course like this and making it much easier to the learners. These three types of communications are the best we could use to improve a good communication student teacher. Why? Because using all three learners will know that the teacher is intereseted on them and want to help them to get a knowledge from themselves instead of making it all as easy as giving them everything. Learner will understand that us teachers are not gone or that far, that we are always there but in a different way. They will understand that it is very similar to an in class course just having the computer and the web as tools for communication and learning.

     I believe that there can be many problems in a distance course, but, there is nothing that cant be solved. As I mentioned before it is all about communication because people with words can understand better. We can avoid every problem or solve it talking and explaining with detail. We must remember that the students have the right to know what we know. Also, they have the ability to understand so we must trust them and give them clear explanation to make a good relationship and avoid any obstacle for the learning process of the student. As I said at the beginning we have to identify the kind of learners that we have even if it is a distance course. Doing that can help us find a better solution to any type of problem in the present and even to solve the ones in the future. This is what makes everything easier and a more efficient learning for the students which is our final goal.