Presentation Title: Community-Building, Engagement, and Meta-Cognitive Support Strategies in Online Learning Environments
Presenter: Dr. Greg Sherman from Radford University (https://www.radford.edu/content/cehd/home/teacher-ed/about/staff/greg-sherman.html)
Workshop Description: This workshop presents an overview of best practice strategies for online learning in the following areas and provides research results and specific examples of these strategies, designed to improve the overall effectiveness of online learning environments.
- Building community in online teaching and learning environments
- Defining strategies for cultivating communities of practice among adult learners
- Strategies for managing group interactions
- Scaffolding strategies for supporting the learning of metacognitive skills
- Strategies for promoting active processing conditions in synchronous and asynchronous environments
