Welcome to the course
Welcome to our course on Humanising your online learning which has been developed with Dr Michelle Pacansky-Brock, Faculty Mentor, Online Teaching and Learning, California Community Colleges, Foothill DeAnza District, USA.
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-Hi there. I’m Michelle Pacansky-Brock. I am a Faculty Mentor for Online Teaching and Learning, with Foothill DeAnza Community College District in the California Community College System. I work for a statewide initiative, and I provide professional development for faculty who teach online at our 116 colleges in the California community college system.
I also teach part-time at Mount San Jacinto College online. I’m an author and a speaker, and I consider myself both a practitioner and a researcher, very passionate about humanising online teaching and learning.
Positive educator-student relationships are critical in supporting students to become independent learners. Humanising your online course helps to overcome these challenges, creating the trusted space in which students can develop their intellectual capacity and independent learning skills. This course explores practical strategies for humanising your online course that have been proven to have an impact on student engagement and attainment.
“Humanising online education is an equitable teaching practice. Equitable teaching involves intentionally removing barriers that disproportionately impact groups of students.”
Get Involved And Share Your Learning
- Share your perspective. Throughout this course, you will see discussion prompts at the end of each lesson inviting you to share your thoughts and experience. We encourage you to respond to these discussion questions and read those of other educators to benefit from theirs. When you see a comment you agree with or find helpful, hit the ‘Like’ button to help other educators find it. You can also reply to any comments from other members that you find interesting.
- Ask a question. You can ask questions of experts and other educators in the discussion threads in courses. If your question is more general, use Ask, Answer and Share in the community to reach more people.
- Pick up your course badges. To earn your Course Completion Badges make sure you mark all lessons as ‘Mark Complete’ once you have completed a lesson. At the end of the course, click ‘Mark Complete’ and you will be asked a few multiple-choice questions to earn a Course Completion badge. Once you’ve had a chance to apply your learning, come back to complete an Impact Badges by applying what you have learned in the courses and answering a short survey.
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Discussions
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