What Flavor Is Your Online Class? Building Social Presence and Fostering Engaged and Successful Students
Concurrent Session 11
Brief Abstract
An online English faculty member, a Dean, and an Instructional Designer walked into a room and… [insert punchline here]. We may laugh a lot in this session, but we take very seriously the concepts of instructor presence and student engagement in online classes. Learn about the importance of social presence, how to engage students, and how to ensure that faculty are both able and willing to create dynamic, personal, original content for their online courses. Our campus has faculty, staff and administration work together all year to plan, create, and test new ways to engage and inspire students. We will provide you with our most successful ideas, things to try to avoid and research to support our practices. (We promise to not spend much time talking about research!) Leave with ideas about how to create and meaningfully use videos, podcasts, images, graphics, gifs, humor and more in online classes.
- Collaboration between faculty, administration and instructional designers can create the kind of forward thinking strategies your online programs need to increase student engagement and success.
- Faculty know about the importance of instructor presence, and this session will build on that understanding while also sharing ideas about the value of social presence in online courses.
- How can faculty meaningfully use videos, podcasts, images, bitmojis, graphics, gifs, humor and more to increase student engagement, student success, and student interest?
Presenters
Extended Abstract
Title: What Flavor is Your Online Class? Building Social Presence and Fostering Engaged and Successful Students
Topics: Accessibility, Quality, Faculty Training, Retaining Students, Social Media, Student Engagement
Other topics: Instructor presence, social presence
An online English faculty member, a Dean, and an Instructional Designer walked into a room and… [insert punchline here]. We may laugh a lot in this session, but we take very seriously the concepts of instructor presence and student engagement in online classes. Learn about the importance of social presence, how to engage students, and how to ensure that faculty are both able and willing to create dynamic, personal, original content for their online courses. Our campus has faculty, staff and administration work together all year to plan, create, and test new ways to engage and inspire students. We will provide you with our most successful ideas, things to try to avoid and research to support our practices. (We promise to not spend much time talking about research!) Leave with ideas about how to create and meaningfully use videos, podcasts, images, graphics, gifs, humor and more in online classes.
Attendees will learn from our experience and will leave with direct and specific ways to increase instructor presence, enhance their online programs and classes, and incorporate the use of new tools and strategies. The session will be highly engaging and interactive, will use discussion, media, technology tools, and include online ways to continue reaching out and following up with ideas and questions. All attendees will have the opportunity to participate, share ideas and gain new understanding. We plan to be inspiring, exciting, and full of ways to help make everyone’s classes even more successful.
- Collaboration between faculty, administration and instructional designers can create the kind of forward thinking strategies your online programs need to increase student engagement and success.
- Faculty know about the importance of instructor presence, and this session will build on that understanding while also sharing ideas about the value of social presence in online courses.
- How can faculty meaningfully use videos, podcasts, images, bitmojis, graphics, gifs, humor and more to increase student engagement, student success, and student interest?
Instructor Presence: Visible, actively engaged, aware of and sensitive to student needs
Social Presence: Degree to which a person is perceived as a real person; person-to-person awareness