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Building Community and Connections Online and On Campus

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Practices and Techniques
Please let us know where you see omissions
and how/what you can contribute!

 

Categories
The role of categories, collections, repositories of online instructional resources, etc. and the intermediaries who help faculty and students use those resources - especially those that help develop and support community and connections.

Meaningful Assessment – Not Just the Numbers
[Also see the TLT Group's Flashlight Program]
Feedback.  To help improve efforts to achieve, support meaningful connections online.

How do you know its working?  How can you keep improving?  How can a program demonstrate it "deserves" continuing support (financial and otherwise)?

Data in usual sense: 
Surveys, quantifiable, …

Data in unusual sense: 
What kinds of things can you (some people more than others) perceive face-to-face that you cannot perceive any other way? 
Almost any other way?

Variety .
The importance and extent of variety in good teaching, good teachers, good learning, and good learners.

Change, Collaboration, and Collaborative Change

Activities
Queries to Help Think About Connected Education

Finding the Balance
Between Being Overconnected and Disconnected

How many mailboxes, email accounts, voice mailboxes, etc. do you have?  How many of the messages you receive can you read/listen and respond to within the same day?
Do you ever feel both overconnected and disconnected at the same time?
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MORE TO BE FOUND OR DEVELOPED:

Links to lists of activities that use online or offline resources for achieving, complementing, or supporting meaningful connections and community online and/or offline. 


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