by Muscatine Journal
When long-time Muscatine Community College faculty member Kay Rooff-Steffen was asked, last fall, to offer an evening public speaking class this spring, she ventured outside the traditional box. “It is time to recognize how busy our students are,” Rooff-Steffen said, “and how responsible they can be for some of their own learning.” Rooff-Steffen has designed and taught face-to-face, as well as online classes at MCC for several years, so she knows what kind of assignments translate well into distance learning; she also knows how important the traditional face-to-face environment is for public speaking activities. The district course model requires students to speak for a minimum of 30 minutes during a semester. This, in Rooff-Steffen’s opinion, is vital to the relevant learning outcomes of the course.
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