If your course is missing human to human interaction, it is nothing more than a correspondence course. There are many strategies that you can employ to humanize your online course and make it more engaging.
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When we talk about humanizing a course, we are talking about the interactions in a course. The course can be face-to-face, hybrid, or online. However, I am focusing on online. These interactions are:
- Learner-content
- Learner-learner
- Learner-instructor
Most of the interactions for many online courses are learner-content. It is a correspondence course if this is the sole means of interaction.
We want to humanize a course because it is required and it is the right thing to do. According to the U.S. Department of Education Distance education, distance education courses must have “regular and substantive interaction between the students and the instructor, either synchronously or asynchronously.” Research indicates that student-instructor interactions and timely feedback contribute to increased retention and satisfaction.
In this episode, we look at sixteen strategies to humanize your course.
Additional Reading
- ITC: 8 – What Is Universal Design for Learning?
- ITC: 9 – How Multiple Means of Representation Can Help Your Classroom
- ITC: 10 – See What Your Students Know Through Multiple Means of Action and Expression
- ITC: 29 – Success Tips for Creating Engaging Online Discussions
- ITC: 30 – 6 Engaging Online Discussion Strategies
- ITC: 53 – Virtual Office Hours Best Practices
- Tips for Humanizing Your Online Course
- Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning: The Quest for Authenticity
- Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning
- How to Humanize the Online Class Setting
- Humanizing Online Learning
- Deploy Tools & Strategies to ‘Humanize’ Online Learning
- Humanizing Online Learning
- Behaviors & Strategies for Improving Online Instructor Presence
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