Facilitating Virtual Learning Communities
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Facilitating Virtual Learning Communities
Do you facilitate a virtual learning community? Would you like to learn strategies and moves that ensure your participants have a valuable and meaningful experience? Protocols have been used in education circles for over 30 years to enhance both teacher and student learning. They provide a structure to have conversations around texts, student work, teacher work, dilemmas, equity, and community. Current tools like Zoom, Google Meets, and Microsoft Teams allow learning communities to easily meet online. However, it is important to create a culture of community, keep participants engaged, and facilitate group learning in these virtual environments. This book explores these topics, highlighting the voices of facilitators from around the United States who are doing this work in a variety of settings, including K-12, universities, and state agencies. In addition, readers will find more than 30 different protocols that have been modified specifically so they can be used in a virtual learning community setting. Book Features: Brings together in one place virtual learning communities, facilitation strategies, and the use of protocols in today's synchronous, video-based environments. Explores the differences between facilitating learning communities online and facilitating them face-to-face. Offers a variety of facilitation moves and choices that one should consider when leading a virtual learning community. Builds on the work of The Facilitator's Book of Questions, The Power of Protocols, and Going Online with Protocols.
Facilitating Virtual Learning Communities
Do you facilitate a virtual learning community? Would you like to learn strategies and moves that ensure your participants have a valuable and meaningful experience? Protocols have been used in education circles for over 30 years to enhance both teacher and student learning. They provide a structure to have conversations around texts, student work, teacher work, dilemmas, equity, and community. Current tools like Zoom, Google Meets, and Microsoft Teams allow learning communities to easily meet online. However, it is important to create a culture of community, keep participants engaged, and facilitate group learning in these virtual environments. This book explores these topics, highlighting the voices of facilitators from around the United States who are doing this work in a variety of settings, including K–12, universities, and state agencies. In addition, readers will find more than 30 different protocols that have been modified specifically so they can be used in a virtual learning community setting. Book Features: Brings together in one place virtual learning communities, facilitation strategies, and the use of protocols in today’s synchronous, video-based environments.Explores the differences between facilitating learning communities online and facilitating them face-to-face.Offers a variety of facilitation moves and choices that one should consider when leading a virtual learning community.Builds on the work of The Facilitator’s Book of Questions, The Power of Protocols, and Going Online with Protocols.
Building Online Learning Communities
Building Online Learning Communities further explores the development of virtual classroom environments that foster a sense of community and empower students to take charge of their learning to successfully achieve learning outcomes. This is the second edition of the groundbreaking book by Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt and has been completely updated and expanded to include the most current information on effective online course development and delivery. A practical, hands-on guide, this resource is filled with illustrative case studies, vignettes, and examples from a wide variety of successful online courses. The authors offer proven strategies for handling challenges that include: Engaging students in the formation of an online learning community. Establishing a sense of presence online. Maximizing participation. Developing effective courses that include collaboration and reflection. Assessing student performance. Written for faculty in any distance learning environment, this revised edition is based on the authors many years of work in faculty development for online teaching as well as their extensive personal experience as faculty in online distance education. Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt share insights designed to guide readers through the steps of online course design and delivery.