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“Being student-centered is not just about recognizing that teaching is not the same thing as learning. It is also about seeing teaching as a human enterprise where your connection to your students, their connection to you, and their connection to each other are at the core.” --Dan Levy

For many professors, the pandemic forced the online environment upon us in a sudden and unwanted manner. For others, blended and asynchronous courses are now seen as a welcome addition to our delivery options, albeit with a sense of loss for the connections we readily developed in our in-person classes. To foster a culture of engaged learning, active learning principles apply in the online learning environment as much as they do in the physical classroom. Yet, the challenge is how do we create instructor, cognitive, and social presence in our online courses. Is this even possible?

Faculty in two FLCs, Successfully Engaging Students in the Virtual Learning Environment, explored the theme of engaging students in the online environment this past academic year. Researching, sharing, and implementing a variety of innovative and high-impact practices at both undergraduate and graduate levels, many creative insights, as well as simple, yet effective, ideas emerged. Our panelists, Sandy Benson (Professor, JCB); Jenn Caputo (Professor, CBHS); Elizabeth Whalen (Assistant Professor, CBHS); and Catherine Ariail (Instructor, CLA ) will share ideas we implemented as we reimagined the online learning environment to promote the human side of teaching and learning.

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This is a Zoom workshop.
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