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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

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“It doesn’t really build a community, if that was what is intended,” he says. Many instructors see them as drudgery as well. For Valenza and a growing number of instructors, the answer is video. In the course evaluations at the end of the semester they write that our class has really formed a community,” she says.

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New 'Playbook' Explains Four Elements of Great Online Courses

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A new “playbook” aims to strike the middle ground between offering higher ed instructors and institutions too much information about teaching remotely and offering too little. Here are summaries of the four essential elements of successful online courses, according to the playbook. We know, EdSurge has published plenty of it.)

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Colleges Can Turn Classes Into Virtual Communities. Here’s How.

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And if incoming students do not see the difference between the online instruction offered by their community college and by a traditional four-year residential school, many university administrators should be nervous indeed. To stave off this potential defection, how can we instructors promote virtual community?

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Connecting with Online Students

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Connecting with students shifts the obligation from the instructor working singularly to create an inclusive environment to one where the class works collectively to build the community. Instructors lead by example, sharing information about themselves, their backgrounds, and their interests, and encourage students to do the same.

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Connecting with Online Students

Faculty Focus

Connecting with students shifts the obligation from the instructor working singularly to create an inclusive environment to one where the class works collectively to build the community. Instructors lead by example, sharing information about themselves, their backgrounds, and their interests, and encourage students to do the same.

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What It Takes For a College to Go Online

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In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

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Even the best instructors may not be able to reach every student. To get started, what are some of the channels that currently exist, if any, for students to interact with their faculty or instructors around teaching and curriculum? I see for example some professors doing an informal course evaluation midway of the semester.

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