UNCG Faculty Support Network presents a webinar series on “Online Learning and Innovation.”  This webinar series is for UNCG faculty, instructors, librarians, graduate students, TAs, and staff interested in learning more about instructional technology and online learning at UNCG.  Some of the topics included are online learning pedagogies, UNCG instructional technology tools (Canvas, Google, Box, etc) and more.  These webinars are all 30 minutes and are hosted in Zoom.  Once participants sign up, they will get an email with link to the session the day of the webinar. If you cannot attend the session live, please still sign up to receive an email with the recording.

October 4th, 11am “Building Instructor Presence in Canvas” by Audrey Bryk-Lee

Presence is an essential component of asynchronous online courses, improving student learning, satisfaction, and sense of belonging. In the absence of presence, the course can feel transactional – the instructor adds content to Canvas and students submit assignments for grading. This session will introduce the Community of Inquiry framework and provide five simple, concrete methods for building instructor presence in Canvas. Incorporating these strategies can help replace what sometimes is lost when a course moves online, without sacrificing the flexibility that asynchronous learning provides.