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Humanizing: OLC Accelerate 2019

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How to Humanizing Your Online Class. What is Humanizing? Humanized learning increases the relevance of content and improves students’ motivation to log-in week-after-week. When students relate to their online instructor as something more than a subject matter expert and begin to conceive of themselves as part of a larger community, they are more likely to be motivated, be satisfied with their learning, and succeed in achieving the course objectives (Picciano, 2002; Rovai & Barnum, 2003; Richardson & Swan, 2003). 1) Facilitation includes presence, empathy, and awareness. Presence: Don’t be a robot. Create a lively welcome video. Greet students with a video each week. Offer synchronous meetings for those who need them. Empathy: See things through your students’ eyes. Be approachable. Check-in with students individually. Support students through difficult times. Send a supportive video message to a struggling student. Awareness: Know your students. Survey students in week 1. Use a fun, low-risk ice-breaker to get students connected. Build in formative feedback loops. 2. Course Design incudes choice, challenge, control, collaboration, constructing meaning and consequences. Choice: Allow students to: express themselves through writing, voice, and video provide format and topic options for projects Options increase intrinsic motivation. Challenge: Encourage students to try new things - and let them know you believe in them! Assess learning through content creation. Control: Involve students in decision- making. Allow students to: organize groups, create a portion of the class content, suggest ideas for assessments. Collaboration: Empower students to inspire one another. Have students learn from each other Use social technologies to design connected learning activities. Constructing Meaning: Have students discover real-world connections. Use video as a catalyst for discussion. Invite students to contribute videos, images, links that demonstrate examples of concepts. Consequences: Design projects that last longer than your class. Turn students into content creators. Have students share work with peers and/or in the public web.

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