| Online Presence |
Defining Features |
Recommendations |
| Teaching Presence |
- Plan & prepare to maximize your impact on the student learning experience
- Facilitate online discussion
- Provide direct instruction (academic and pedagogic leadership)
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- Record a personal video introduction
- Send a welcome email
- Conduct routine 5-10 minute synchronous meetings with each student
- Record an intro video and tour of your Moodle Course
- Model what presence is in an online course
- Send regular email updates to remind students of upcoming due dates and provide feedback on weekly learning activities
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| Social Presence |
- Establish a supportive classroom community
- Create opportunities for students to interact with each other
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- Encourage students to post pictures and profiles on Moodle
- Create an introductory discussion forum to cultivate student-student interaction
- Create an online class lounge or a virtual café
- Create study group forums
- Design weekly activities that require students to interact with each other (i.e. discussion forums, peer editing, group projects, Zoom breakout rooms, etc.)
- Do warm-up/ ice-breaker activities the beginning of Zoom sessions
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| Cognitive Presence |
- Create intentional opportunities for students to complete learning tasks and activities
- Design activities that require higher-order thinking and are sufficiently challening
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- Devise communication/exchange structure that has students build understanding between themselves
- Build opportunities for students to think and apply the course content together
- Start and finish your class in Zoom (e.g. provide a hook, intro, and closure activities)
- Design discussion forums around meaningful and thought-provoking questions
- Provide guidelines for online participation and share descriptive rubrics
- Provide frameworks or guiding questions to help students unpack discussion questions and build analytical skills
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