Faculty Presence in Online Classes - Module Overview

Button to enroll in the faculty development course

Click this button to enroll if you would like to join the course for the first time. If you're already enrolled please continue on with the training.

Hands Together Banner.PNG

Presence in Online Learning

Research indicates that student success improves when students feel a connection to their instructors and classmates. Online instructors need to be intentional when designing their courses to create a sense of presence in the student experience. 

A well-known and researched model of presence in the classroom is the Community of Inquiry (COI) which looks at the learning experience through the intersection of Social, Teaching, and Cognitive Presence. 

This module's goal is to introduce to you the theory of online presence, discuss its importance, and learn how to design it in your class.

Objectives

In this module you will learn to ...

  • Define instructor presence as it applies to online learning
  • Identify ways that instructor presence can be designed into your course structure
  • Discuss how you create instructor presence in your course

 

Requirements

To complete this training you must ...

  • Complete the "Create a Presence Plan" Assignment
  • Share your thoughts and strategies on online presence in the discussion. 

Click Next below to get started.