Creating Community and Connections in Remote Learning

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Building rapport through instructor-to-student interactions and facilitating student-to-student interactions can help promote student motivation and intellectual risk taking. In face-to-face classes, some of these interactions happen spontaneously through small talk and physical proximity to others. How can we intentionally structure and foster this same sense of connection in remote learning? In this session, participants will learn: (1) how a sense of community can help foster learning; (2) what students say helps them feel connected remotely; and (3) research-based strategies that increase connectedness online.

Facilitators:
Jenny Wagner, MPH., Ph.D. Student, Public Health Sciences; Teaching Assistant Consulting Fellow - Center for Educational Effectiveness
Gwen Chodur MSPH, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology Nutritional Biology; Teaching Assistant Consulting Fellow - Center for Educational Effectiveness
Michelle Rossi MA., MEd., Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology; Teaching Assistant Consulting Fellow - Center for Educational Effectiveness

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