explain how instructors can incorporate humor in an online course, the enhancement humor can bring, guidelines for locating, selecting, developing, and integrating humor into an online courses, and examples of humor in various online components.

Defining presence in an online course, and strategies for creating it

The purpose of this study is to provide conceptual order and a tool for the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and computer conferencing in supporting an educational experience. Central to the study introduced here is a model of community inquiry that constitutes three elements essential to an educational transactioncognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence.

Review of CoI model and some strategies for promoting social and teaching presence

Podcast interview with Rosemary Lehman and Simone Conceicao, authors of Creating a Sense of Presence in Online Teaching: How to "Be There" for Distance Learners.

several mini-sermons to help you convince students that student-centered teaching methods are for their benefit, not the instructors.

when to allow students to work within their prefered learning style and when to require them to expand into other styles

description of various learning styles and ideas for meeting students learning needs online.

Discusses various learning styles and offers an online assessment of learning style

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Ideas for active learning in an online course

Study about the effects of teaching teachers how to teach

How communication differs f2f vs. online, and considerations for effective online communication

initiative of AAC&U articulates aims and purposes of a current liberal education, identified innovative models that improve campus practices and learning for all undergraduate students, and advocated for a comprehensive approach to reform.

How To Understand The Role of Questions in Thinking & Learning

examines the classroom learning environment in relation to achievement goal theory of motivation

benefits of peer review in writing process

How one teacher gave the peer review process over to his students and they developed it into something useable and meaningful.

perceptions of computer conferencing

study examined student interaction and participation within a computer-mediated communication (Need ERIC login)