Building Community Online Series - Session 1:  Leveraging Your LMS: Building a Community of Inquiry Asynchronously - Microlearning Burst

Where: Webinar/Virtual

When: Thursday, February 4, 2021
10:15am - 11:00am

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Workshop Organizers:  Christine Boyland of Bryn Mawr College and Heather Richards of Nichols College

Registration Fee:
NERCOMP Member: Free
Non-Member: $25
 

Event Overview
Whether you teach fully online or in a remote or hybrid class, creating a community of inquiry (Garrison, 2007) through social, cognitive, and teaching presence will enhance your students’ educational experience and improve student learning outcomes.  This first session in our three-part series will introduce the concept of a Community of Inquiry and then show how an instructor or course designer can create asynchronous communicative, collaborative, critical, and reflective activities online.  For teaching presence, modes of modeling intellectual engagement and recommendations for facilitated discussions and feedback will be introduced.  For social presence, we will look at options for shared meaning-making through group work and interactive assignments, and for cognitive presence, we will discuss ways to encourage engagement with course materials to build an evolving understanding of the topic and share that knowledge with peers.  This session is designed for instructors, designers/technologists, and librarians.
 

Learning Objectives
Participants in this session will:
- Understand the Community of Inquiry Framework and how to apply it in your course context.
- Generate asynchronous strategies for creating teaching presence, cognitive presence, and social presence in your course.   
- Devise an initial course design to enhance students’ connection to the instructor, course content, and each other.
 

This Series has 3 Sessions (please sign up for each individually).  You are not required to attend all 3.
Upcoming Sessions:
 - February 11, 2021:  Making Face-Time Count: Strategies to Promote Engagement in Live Online Meetings (and Common Pitfalls to Avoid)
 - February 18, 2021:  Instructor-Generated Videos for Increasing Social Presence in the Online and HyFlex Learning Environments: Teaching and Instructional Design in the COVID Pandemic and Beyond

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