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: However, it is not good if students don’t read it. As much as content matters, design also matters. As opposed to a traditional text heavy syllabus, creating an interactive and engaging syllabus that incorporates multimedia elements besides text, such as audio, video, images and animation, can help to give students the options to obtain the information in a more interactive way. For students, an interactive syllabus can make them feel more related to the instructor and feel instructor presence in the design of the syllabus. Example: An interactive syllabus created using Thinglink. Technology Tools: Thinglink
Piktochart
Glogster
Practical tips: Include a bio of yourself. Include availability for one-to-one communication with students. (