Larry Ragan

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Table 1. Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, Chickering and Gamson (1986) 1. Encourage contact between students and faculty: Frequent student-faculty contact both in and outside of class is an important factor in student motivation and involvement. 2. Develop reciprocity and cooperation among students: Faculty should create and encourage opportunities for collaborative learning among students. 3. Encourages active learning: Faculty should require students to apply their learning in oral and written forms. 4. Give prompt feedback: Faculty should provide appropriate and prompt feedback on performance. Students need help assessing their current competence and performance, and need frequent opportunities to perform and receive suggestion for improvement. Such feedback should be an ongoing process in collegiate settings. 5. Emphasize time on task: Faculty should create opportunities for students to practice good time management. This includes setting realistic time for students to complete assignments as well as using class time for learning opportunities. 6. Communicate high expectations: Faculty should set and communicate high expectations for students. Such becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for students and they often will rise to meet the challenge. 7. Respect diverse talents and ways of learning: Faculty should create learning opportunities that appeal to the different ways students will process and attend to information. Varying presentation style and assignment requirement will allow students to showcase their unique talents and learn in ways that work for them.

Compiled by Janie Wilson, Ph.D. Immediacy is defined by psychological availability

Teacher immediacy has been related to student motivation, learning, and perception of the learning process.

students have a more positive attitude toward instructors who exhibit immediacy behavior

“Immediacy is a perception of physical or psychological closeness” (Richmond, 2002, p. 65). It

Teacher immediacy correlates with affective learning outcomes (attitudes, beliefs and values toward learning) and (slightly) with cognitive learning outcomes (recognition, recall, understanding content).

If students like you, you are probably using immediacy behaviors, as immediacy in part determines power and liking (affect) of students for their teachers.

Effectively managing your time becomes crucial to succeeding in online learning.

the reality is that online courses are just as time consuming as classes that are delivered in a traditional classroom format.

Allow yourself a realistic amount of time to complete all the needed assignments. This may mean you have to free up your schedule in order to complete everything.

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