Title: Digital Presence
Presenter: Andrew Shean
Date: 11/4/15
TLC Track: High Impact Online Teaching and Learning Practices
Synopsis: Digital Presence: defined as the ability to transmit yourself as an professor into the online environment in such a way that the student senses a real human. Part 1: strategies everyone can leverage, e.g., adding images to forums, announcements, using humor, etc. Part 2: developing multimedia (e.g., Jing, web 2.0 tools, webcams, etc. Part 3: co-creating content with students and sharing in a socially constructed environment in which the professor becomes a facilitator of student-student learning as much as direct instruction.