Course:OL Delivery:OTL301:Planning

Teaching Presence Course

Cognitive Presence Course

Outcomes

1. analyze the characteristics of ‘social presence’ in an effective online learning environment
2. identify factors or considerations that contribute to student engagement and retention in distance learning environments.
3. evaluate effective course facilitation strategies to increase student engagement and retention.
4. create and implement strategies to maximize student engagement in distance learning courses.
5. identify at-risk students and apply appropriate retention strategies.
6. Establish 3 goals related to improving and enhancing your social presence in your courses
7. develop a plan for achieving your goals resulting in an improved and enhanced social presence in your courses.

Links

• NSSE
• Interaction Equivalency Theorem

Course Outline

Week 1 - Welcome and Intro

Activities

• Instructor to post short video
  • outside activities
  • how to contact? (other, later students, social media)
• Participants to post on challenges they have faced in connecting with students in paced or continuous entry courses.
• reading on social presence

Week 2-3 --

Outcome

2&3

Activities

• lit review (NSSE)
• identify a MOOC (Coursera, EdX...)
  • rate according to engagement and retention strategies or models
  • identify strategies for improving engagement and retention in distance learning

Week 4-5 --

Outcome

4 & 5

Activities

• video creation module from CMS
• case study
  • create video resource explaining suggested strategies to engage with the class depicted in the case study and maximize student retention

Week 6 --

Outcome

6-7

Activities

• Review and summarize 2-3 current articles on enhancing teaching presence
• Present strategies for achieving your goals
• interview a peer
  • analyze peer's engagement strategies
  • identify 2-3 goals relevant to your work and based on research and the strengths or weaknesses of your peer's practice