Course:OL Delivery:OTL301:Planning

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Teaching Presence Course

Cognitive Presence Course

Social Presence: Engaging and Retaining your Students

Overview

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 practices 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

Outcome

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

Resources

Assessments

Week 2-3 --

Outcome

Activities

  • lit review (NSSE)

Resources

Assessments

Week 4-5 --

Outcome

Activities

  • video creation module from CMS

Resources

Assessments