Are you looking to add opportunities for students to participate in your classes? The following article shares eight strategies: five synchronous and three asynchronous.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/8-strategies-improve-participation-your-virtual-classroom
Do you have any favorites from this article? What are some strategies you use to foster participation in your courses?
As we work on building a sense of community and engagement in our classrooms, this article might offer a few ideas:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Turns-Out-You-Can-Build/249038
The ideas are from a synchronous online course, which differs from our asynchronous Independent Learning courses with regularly scheduled class sessions. However, it’s interesting to read about how personal essay writing, which can be incorporated into any course, can help build community.
Have you been looking for more ways to increase engagement, personability, or community in your online courses? The article below shares some ideas, including how we as instructors can model these ideas and how we can design our course.
https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/seven-strategies-to-promote-community-in-online-courses/
What are some ways you’ve fostered community in your online courses?If you have examples, we’d love to share them.