Building Meaningful Relationships in an Online Learning Environment

Join moderator, Jeff Child along with guests Jennifer McCullough and Ben Hollis from Kent State University, Angela Hosek from Ohio University, Bethany Simunich from Quality Matters, and Scheherazade Pollins, who is a student at the University of Las Vegas, as they discuss Building Meaningful Relationships in an Online Learning Environment. During the episode, they will talk about the following:

• What does it mean to build meaningful relationships in an online environment and what does that look like?

• What strategies for creating instructor presence in an online environment have been successful at engaging students?

• What are best practices for planning and cultivating student-to-students relationships in an online environment?

• How can we capitalize on the requirements and policies around regular and substantive interaction (RSI) to build better relationships with our online students?

• What are some of the new tech tools that help in building online relationships?

• If each of you could suggest maybe one simple strategy that instructors might try to test out that for you has had a big impact on building relationships in an online environment, what would that be?

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