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Principles and Structure for Building Community Online and On
Campus
[Principles and Structure for
the BCOOC Series & Beyond]
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and how/what you can contribute!
Build Community
- Builds community online and on campus
for the full group.
- Use new online tools and resources most likely to help achieve our goals
with the lowest incremental costs - in dollars, time, and stress [use "Low-Threshold
Applications/Activities" LTAs]. Accept the risks that go with
exploring new applications
- Build something together
- Psychological Sense of
Community (PSOC) - Four Factors
(Membership, Influence, Integration, Fulfillment of Needs)
Subgroups
- Forming, supporting effective working sub-groups
Synergies
Take advantage of the synergies that can emerge from the interactions of
thoughtful people from different fields who share some common concerns.
Take advantage of differential strengths of both online and on site resources and activities.
Link face-to-face with online activities
Some purely online
Some purely face-to-face
Mostly hybrid: Either simultaneously hybrid (some participate face-to-face while others participate online at the same time) or sequentially hybrid (some purely online activities are followed by some purely face-to-face activities followed by mixtures…. )
Hold face-to-face meetings
wherever, whenever convenientLearn by Teaching; Teaching by Learning
Accessibility
Use tools, media, practices that make activities,
services, and materials as widely accessible as possible within resource
constraints.
Self-Referential
Encourage sharing insights about techniques/activities and
tools/technologies used in the "course" itself.
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