{"id":1529,"date":"2016-10-21T20:09:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T20:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2017-07-22T16:55:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T16:55:45","slug":"nwelearn-revisiting-presence-and-community-in-the-online-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/nwelearn-revisiting-presence-and-community-in-the-online-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"NWeLearn: Revisiting Presence and Community in the Online Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revisiting Presence and Community in the Online Classroom <\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick Lowenthal, Assistant Professor at Boise State University <\/span><\/p>\n

Online educators love to talk about social presence and community. In this talk, Patrick will review some of his recent research on social presence and community with the goal of encouraging the audience to not only revisit but challenge current assumptions held about presence and community in the online classroom. <\/span><\/p>\n

He calls himself an educator, researcher, designer, and developer. He has been teaching online since 2002. <\/span><\/p>\n

He is excited about hating learning objectives and Quality Matters. <\/span><\/p>\n

He discussed the history of social presence. \u201c<\/span>The Social Psychology of Telecommunications<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He gave a continuum of social presence. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGiven enough time, we will find ways to connect even with email.\u201d (Walther)<\/span><\/p>\n

Community of Inquiry – The Education Experience: social, cognitive, teaching presence. He reviewed the lit around social presence and communication, and the community of inquiry. <\/span><\/p>\n

His definition of social presence in an online course: real, there, connection, belonging. <\/span><\/p>\n

He says that social presence is not the same thing and learning community.<\/span><\/p>\n

Books he recommends: Situated Learning (1991) & Communities of Practice (1998)<\/span><\/p>\n

What does an online community look like?<\/p>\n

He says that there are benefits to community and social presence – but there is an \u201cover-emphasis.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Atlantic \u201c<\/span>When Schools Overlook Introverts<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Does not like Quality Matters because?<\/p>\n

It does a good job at scaffolding or creating an template. <\/span><\/p>\n

His argument is that we need to be better than QM. We have to expect more. <\/span>
\nHe says we don\u2019t need \u201cvirtual hugs\u201d which I am not sure what he means by that. He also says that no student says that they were impressed about the assessments are aligned with the learning objectives. I disagree with this point – when they are not aligned they will definitely let you know.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quality Matters and templates help solve problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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