“It just feels different in my classes.” “We are back, but it doesn’t feel like we are back together.” Versions of these sentiments can be heard across college campuses this fall. Students are back in classrooms, or participating in online courses, but the engagement does not feel the same for many of us. At aContinue reading “The Art of Gathering Applied to the College Classroom”
Category Archives: Building Community
Easy Icebreakers for synchronous online class sessions
Building community is essential in online and virtual spaces. Studies of asynchronous online learning based on the Community of Inquiry (COI) framework have long shown the need for social presence in creating productive learning environments. Yet creating and maintaining social presence does not happen as naturally as it can in our in-person class settings, whereContinue reading “Easy Icebreakers for synchronous online class sessions”