Blog Post 3.2

  How has your view of the effective practice changed now that you have read more about teaching presence?   I found it very interesting that there was such strong differences in practice between the two different courses that were used in the study conducted by Anderson et al. While the sample set is too […]

Blog Post 2.2

Describe the ways in which your introductory post should have enhanced social presence in a course that you teach: My introductory post should have helped to create an environment of trusting be exposing myself as a “real” person with hobbies and interests. This would help to establish a community within the course that would encourage […]

Blog Post 1.2

What do you know now that you did not know prior to starting the course? I learned that critical thinking can be empirically evaluated using trigger words. This framework can easily be used to compare teaching methods. What gaps or discrepancies do you notice between your ideas in Post 1 and what you have learned […]