Intelligence Test

The Intelligence Test indicated that my intelligence type is Intrapersonal and Interpersonal with scores of 29 and 28 respectively. I think that is fairly accurate. I much prefer face to face interaction with people and specifically, as a teacher, with students. I teach both online and face to face courses. The main advantages to online courses are accessibility, convenience and flexibility, which are great advantages. I like them as well, and believe they are the reasons online courses are so popular. However, my personal belief is that the advantages do not outweigh the disadvantages. With online courses I am not able to see students’ faces, hear their voices and speech inflections. I cannot observe their personal interactions with their peers and myself. This takes away the opportunity to read their non-verbal language of understanding a concept, confusion, boredom, inability to pay attention, sense of humor, sense of accomplishment., enjoyment of the class etc. When I cannot observe a student’s behavior it is more difficult for me to know if or when I need to spend more time with them, explain a concept differently, and improve or make changes to a course. It is difficult to know if I the goals and objectives I establish for the course are truly being met because I cannot talk to them about it directly. One of the things I truly love about teaching is laughing with the students. Nursing school and nursing can be very funny, and that is a huge part that is missing from online courses. It is one of the things about teaching, that for me, defines the joy of teaching. In summary, I will continue to teach and take online courses, but my bias will always be towards in- person or face to face courses