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Creating a Sense of Belonging through Instructor Social Presence

Faculty Focus

To offset students’ feelings of being “the only one” and to help develop feelings of connection, instructors in online courses may make use of strategies such as personal online introductions by faculty and students, discussion assignments, group projects, occasional video lectures, and Zoom office hours. Where is this going?”

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How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program

Edsurge

Previously, her syllabus relied on a series of pamphlets from the Water Education Foundation, a California-based non-profit. For example, she originally assigned readings based off of sections, and students requested that the instructor instead assign page numbers, which were easier to jump to in the digital textbook.

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Study.com Makes the College Dream a Reality for Lots of Students

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Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. Lessons can be pushed out to the entire class or specific students. Things to know.

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