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Helping Students to become Attached to their Classrooms
Helping students develop a sense of belonging in the online classroom using group-based and identity-based attachments.
Helping students develop a sense of belonging in the online classroom can be a difficult process. Online students frequently perceive a sense of isolation within the online classroom. This sense of disconnect can often stem from a lack of contact between the student and instructor and from other students, a lack of attachment to the class as a perceivable entity, and the inability to forge a meaningful online identity. Ren et al. (2012) noted customers who believe they lack attachment and…
Asking the right type of questions can help promote critical thinking and increase dialogue in the online classroom.
Two of the significant challenges online faculty face are promoting critical thinking amongst our students and developing dialogue within the discussion forums. The online environment poses certain issues toward achieving both goals. We lack the face-to-face communication and repertoire often required to help students extend their thinking to the critical thinking realm, and the asynchronous modality of communications does not intrinsically promote in-depth and thoughtful dialogue. The ability…
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