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"Garrison, Anderson, and Archer (2000) identify and explain the critical elements of a Community of Inquiry that supports instruction and learning. The elements include: cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence."

Short article giving five tips on building online presence: Have your online students introduce themselves. Introduce yourself to your students. Create a "commons area" for off-topic discussions. Use synchronous tools for office hours. Don't be the center of every discussion.

Very good.

"Faculty often describe the role of the online teacher as more of a "guide-on- the-side"rather than a "sage-on-the-stage." However, this cliché can be taken to extremes; there isa fine line between being a guide on the side and being absent. Therefore, this articlefocuses on different strategies online faculty can use to improve their teaching andultimately student learning by balancing their teaching presence when teaching online."

Nice introductory article on what online presence is, along with some specific examples of how faculty have tried to improve their online presence in their classes. Clearly defines what online presence is in the literature, and some of the components that go into making up online presence from the design, teaching, and student perspective.

Road block: You must be logged in to download - many people don't want to log in or create accounts when they just want to blast around and read about a topic.

" teaching presence in online education depends on course design and organization, facilitation of online discourse, and well-focused direct instruction."

Good article that talks about developing online presence through both the design and implementation of the course. Provides some basic examples on how faculty can establish an online presence.

I liked this article very much

Tools for improving instructor presence

I like that it gives examples of tools that can be used to increase instructor presence.

I see how it fits in, but it might be too specific in terms of the technology and because of that, might not stand the test of time.

" The purpose of this article is to describe and analyze two online legal environment courses to determine whether the instructor successfully used technology to create an effective online teaching and learning environment. The central focus is on the concept of "teaching presence" in physical and online environments and how teaching presence can be created in an online environment. "

This was a long article (50 pages) it was a study of two legal courses and whether they engaged the students in learning. It provided a background on distance learning, and learning theories, and then described the two courses and the research questionnaire. It was an interesting study, but I am not sure that faculty would find this useful or informative on how to improve their presence in their courses.

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I like this one.

this might be too light weight.

Question: If all of our topics are going to have video resources we should research videos. While I am sure this might be good, there might also be better out there in terms of videos.

Interesting article about personality online.

missed the mark for me.