Seminar 8: Strategies for designing hybrid teaching environments

Abstract

One of the main challenges we face when teaching online is how to create a sense of belonging among our students. This webinar will address the challenge of building learning communities by offering research-informed practical strategies for designing hybrid online learning environments that facilitate distributed learning communities. Interactive media allows for the creation of new kinds of learning communities, distributed learning communities, which are not fixed in time and space. This webinar will highlight strategies, with particular reference to the use of a variety of online tools, including some free social media and institutionally supported platforms and licensed/hosted social me..