- How has your view of the effective practice changed now that you have read more about teaching presence?
My view of effective practice now that I have read through the courses content, can be added too with some pretty simple yet effective tools that ensure student engagement right from the beginning of the course. By focusing on highlighting and showing my history and understanding of the course content and objectives, this can give the students a sense of why they are in the course and help with engagement and curiosity with the course content.
- In what ways did the effective practice that you identified show the characteristics of teaching presence?
While other measures such as a good course outline, teacher presence, appropriate activities, etc, are important, helping students to see the common cause/objectives that we share can help them relate not only to me but to the course content in a more authentic and engaged way.
- How could the idea of teaching presence have made the experience even more effective than it was?
By continuing to highlight that sense of community within the learning cohort and helping to facilitate the learners who are coming into the course from multiple different perspectives, to unite around a common community goal.