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Revision as of 15:15, 23 May 2014

Creating a Positive Presence in Your Virtual Classroom

This course focuses on the creation of a “Teaching Presence” with building knowledge and skills required to create a positive learning environment and bring the human touch to the virtual class while developing and evaluating strategies for efficient time management.

What is Teaching Presence?

From the Community of Inquiry website at Athabasca University, teaching presence is defined as the design, facilitation, and direction of cognitive and social processes for the purpose of realizing personally meaningful and educational worthwhile learning outcomes.

Intended Learning Outcomes

You will be able to

  • analyze the characteristics of ‘teaching presence’ in an effective distance learning environment;
  • evaluate your teaching presence in light of the characteristics of effective distance learning environments;
  • evaluate the ways that interactions occur in a distance learning environment and develop ideas to encourage high quality educative interactions;
  • devise, implement, and evaluate strategies for efficient time management;
  • explore the use of digital tools to enhance teaching presence and promote student learning;
  • establish goals related to improving and enhancing your teaching presence in your courses;
  • reflect on your own practice and evaluate your progress towards improving and enhancing teaching presence.

Course Overview

Week 1 - Welcome and Introduction

Activities

  • Read course guide
  • Set up blog
  • Access Kumu wiki
  • Read CoI article
  • Post #1 - Self-Introduction

Resources

  • WordPress and Wiki tutorials
  • CoI article

Assessments

None


Week 2-3 - Teaching Presence

Outcome

  • analyze the characteristics of ‘teaching presence’ in an effective distance learning environment

Activities

  • Read Teaching Presence article
  • Browse for 3-5 open courses (Saylor, OERu, Coursera, EdX...) and skim each for characteristics of teaching presence.

Resources

  • Teaching Presence article

Assessments

  • Post #2
    • give 3-5 examples of how teaching presence may or may not have been demonstrated in the various open courses you examined.