Overview

Online Teaching and Learning 101 is grounded in the CoI concept of ‘social presence,’ which refers to the ability of learners and teachers to project themselves as real persons into a learning environment. Participants will create strategies  to increase their own social presence and explore opportunities  to encourage students to do the same.

Intended Learning Outcomes

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

1. identify factors or considerations impacting  student engagement and retention in distance learning environments.
2. create and implement strategies to maximize student engagement in distance learning courses.
3. design and develop a media rich environment to support and enhance the social presence in your courses.
4. monitor your progress towards the achievement of  your goals to improve and enhance the social presence in your courses.

If you can crack the problem of engagement – not just ‘are you paying attention?’, but ‘are you fascinated by this?‘ – if you can crack engagement in deep learning then you’ve cracked 21st century schooling. ~Mike Berril

If you haven’t already done so, click ‘Graphic Overview (engage)’ below to dive right in. You do not need to register for each individual course.