Posted by: Office of Innovative Teaching and Technology
Online courses typically maintain many elements of a classroom – a faculty member, syllabus, objectives, assignments, a weekly schedule – but without real time contact between faculty and students. Research has shown that establishing “social presence” or a sense of being with and belonging to a group can improve learning outcomes. If you would like to incorporate a live or “synchronous” element to your courses, bring your real or virtual self to this session and see why APU has recently added an Online-Synchronous course modality designation. We will demo for you the range of tools available – from Google Hangout to Zoom to Adobe Connect and help you decide which one is right for you. We will show you how a web conference is not the same as virtual classroom and how to achieve the gold standard of maximum interaction for your courses, lead a group project meeting or simply review an assignment with an individual student – all virtually.
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