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.
Summary
References

Content: 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. ( Email, chat, office hours)
Make the syllabus easy to follow. Strategy Three: Participate in the student discussion forums and model proper online discussion. A discussion forum is a great virtual place for instructors and students to connect to each other. Participating in the student discussion forums, modeling proper discussion, adding your perspective on each topic, and responding to student’s questions would show your students that you care about them and that you are there to support them.