Title: Five Strategies for Enhancing Instructor Presence in Online Courses – Instruction @ UH
Headings: Five Strategies for Enhancing Instructor Presence in Online Courses
Five Strategies for Enhancing Instructor Presence in Online Courses
What is Instructor Presence?
How to Establish Instructor Presence in An Online Environment?
Strategy One: Create a video-based instructor introduction/course orientation.
Strategy Two: Make your syllabus more interactive.
Strategy Three: Participate in the student discussion forums and model proper online discussion.
Strategy Four: Give students timely response to their questions.
Strategy Five: Design some synchronous sessions to meet and interact with students.
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Content: This could help you gain a better trust from your students. Blackboard Discussion Board is a great asynchronous tool that allows students to collaborate with each other and with the instructors online. You can also use some multimedia sharing tools, such as Padlet, to create a discussion forum. It gives you flexibility to participate and guide the discussion in multiple modalities. Padlet supports almost every file type, you can post images, documents, videos, music and files. You can attach links, or embed content from anywhere on the web. The simple link sharing feature of Padlet allows for quick interaction and collaboration. Padlet is also mobile, which gives students more options on what device they can use to access the discussion forum. All the updates can appear instantly across devices. Example: