Abstract

Higher education faculty have begun using digital learning content for online courses for ten years. Faculty training is a start point of online course developments. Student-centered pedagogical methods are general in online learning environments. Many schools have to transfer the in-person courses into virtual environments due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, online learning displays a solution. Keeping students from getting together helps decrease the risk of Covid-19 in campus environments. The main difference between learning in classrooms and learning online is that learners and instructors stay in different places. There are fewer interactions between teachers and students or among students. To deal with the difficulty of interactions, instructors have to establish a sense of presence and connect to learners in an online teaching environment. This paper can help teachers understand the features and criteria of effective online learning environments, and it will explain what a sense of presence is and its importance. The goal is to see that teachers will be able to apply the framework for designing online courses with a sense of presence.

Citation

Chung, F.L. (2021). Poster: Online Learning, Online Teaching, and Being There. In E. Langran & L. Archambault (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 463-467). Online, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 13, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/219171/.

© 2021 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)