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3 Tips for Building Community Online

Catlin Tucker

The development of a social presence in a class has been shown to positively impact both engagement and learning outcomes (Richardson, Maeda, Lv & Caskurlu, 2017; Swan, 2019). This work developing the social presence in our courses and helping students feel valued as members of a learning community must be ongoing.

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How Extended Reality Tools Can Bring New Life to Higher Education

Edsurge

While we have been able to use these tools in that way, most educators would readily point to what is missing from the current video platforms that could improve online teaching: tools to better facilitate student interactions, including enhanced polling and quizzing features, group work tools, and more.

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

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“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).

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Using Collaborative Learning to Elevate Students’ Educational Experiences

Faculty Focus

It has become a focus of significant learning institutions (Gao, 2020; Gutierrez, Sanchez, Castaneda, & Prendas, 2017). Collaborative learning allows students to be engaged and active participants in their own learning by sharing ideas, analyzing problems, and finding solutions to them. Form groups strategically.

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A Teacher’s Insight and a Suite of Apps Revitalized Geography—Boosting Student Engagement and Collaboration

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Over the past six years, the Board has invested in technology to improve learning outcomes for all of its students—starting with G Suite for Education and Chromebooks. Our class management tools foster online collaboration, group work and feedback. who is being left behind. There is still room for improvement, however.

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Using Collaborative Learning to Elevate Students’ Educational Experiences

Faculty Focus

It has become a focus of significant learning institutions (Gao, 2020; Gutierrez, Sanchez, Castaneda, & Prendas, 2017). Collaborative learning allows students to be engaged and active participants in their own learning by sharing ideas, analyzing problems, and finding solutions to them. Form groups strategically.

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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

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That study concluded that there isn’t a significant relationship between the size of the class and how well the students did in demonstrating learning outcomes. Way back on episode 25 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, I talked to another expert at engaging large groups of students: Chrissy Spencer, who teaches at Georgia Tech.

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