Tag: community
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“Being There” – Instructor Presence in Online Classes
One of the encouraging messages that emerges from research on online learning is that instructors matter. In particular, students’ perceptions of your social presence in a course strongly correlates to perceptions of learning and instructor satisfaction (Richardson & Swan, 2003, Swan & Shih, 2005). Social presence is the extent to which members of an online…
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Icebreaker: Find Someone Who . . . .
Icebreakers help us create a sense of community which is essential when we are going to collaborate with people. In the classroom, especially in a foreign language class where students need to try to get their mouths to pronounce unfamiliar words and sounds, people need to know that they are in an environment where it…
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First Day of Class
students will appreciate a clear roadmap of what you will require of them over the course of the semester
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