Humanizing techniques

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for humanizing your course

Provide Opportunities for Audience Interaction

engage students with video discussion

enhance your students' presentations

Include Videos of Yourself in Your Courses

Create Community Conversations

Create Synchronous Engagement Opportunities

Individualize Student Feedback

Build Interactive Course Content

Facilitate Group Projects

Peer Power

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Engage Students with Video Discussion

The benefits of engaging students with video discussions include enhanced personal communication, the ability to convey non-verbal cues, increased engagement, immediate feedback, community building, and personalized learning.

Engage Students with Video Discussion

Examples

• Student Introduction Videos
• Weekly Reflective Video Journals
• Peer Feedback Sessions via Video
• Current Event Video Discussion
• Virtual Poster Sessions

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Enhance Your Students' Presentations

Enhance Your Students' Presentations

Student presentations offer several benefits, including increased student engagement, enhanced peer interaction, improved communication skills, a stronger personal connection, the promotion of critical thinking and learning, community building, and greater flexibility and accessibility.

Examples

• Research Project Presentation
• Case Study Analysis
• Group Project Presentation
• Creative Project Presentation
• Debate or Argumentative Presentation

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Provide Opportunities for Audience Interaction

Provide Opportunities for Audience Interaction

Building opportunities for audience interaction into your courses helps engage students, build community, and allow for personalization.

Examples

• Interactive Polls
• Surveys Related to Course Material
• Icebreaker Polls
• Weekly Check-in Surveys
• Reflection Polls
• Pre-Assessment Surveys

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Providing your students with videos of yourself speaking enhances their clarity and understanding, shows your flexibility and accessibility, and can help you show your enthusiasm and passion for the course material.

Include Videos of Yourself in Your Courses

Include Videos of Yourself in Your Courses

Examples

• Welcome Video
• Lecture Videos
• Live Q&A Sessions
• Feedback Videos to Student Assignments
• Demonstration Videos

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Giving your students the opportunity to converse with each other is just as important as giving them the ability to converse with you. Building community helps facilitate collaboration and teamwork, increase engagement, foster a supportive learning environment.

Create Community Conversations

Create Community Conversations

Examples

• Create Discussion Groups
• Assign Group Projects
• Host Real-time Q&As
• Encourage Peer Feedback
• Post Announcements

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Interactive course content is a great way to enhance engagement, improve retention and understanding, give a personalized learning experience, encourage critical thinking, and increase student motivation and satisfaction.

Build Interactive Course Content

Build Interactive Course Content

Examples

• Interactive Videos
• Simulations and Virtual Labs
• Drag and Drop Activities
• Quizzes
• Interactive Presentations
• Crossword

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Providing your students with individualized feedback on assignments helps enhance engagement, improve learning outcomes, boost their confidence and motivation, foster a supportive learning environment, encourage reflective learning, and address individual learning needs.

Individualize Student Feedback

Individualize Student Feedback

Examples

• Written Feedback on Assignments
• Audio or Video Feedback
• Interactive Rubrics
• Progress Reports
• Peer Feedback with Instructor Oversight
• Tailored Study Plans

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Don't just assign group projects; make them work! Group projects can be great for developing collaboration, enhancing critical thinking, introducing students to diverse perspectives, increasing student engagement and accountability, improving students' communication skills, and simulating real-world work environments.

Facilitate Group Projects

Facilitate Group Projects

Examples

• Research Papers or Presentations
• Case Studies
• Peer Teaching
• Simulation and Role Playing

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Though online classes are generally asynchronous, you can still create opportunities for students to meet with you synchronously! Synchronous meetings can help you build stronger relationships with your students, enhance student understanding and clarity, encourage active participation, facilitate collaboration, and support student emotional well-being.

Create Synchronous Engagement Opportunities

Create Synchronous Engagement Opportunities

Examples

• Regular Check-ins
• Feedback Sessions
• Live Q&A Sessions
• Virtual Office Hours

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Though you may be a course's instructor, your students can learn a lot from each other, too! Unlocking peer power in your students helps enhance their critical thinking, provides them with diverse perspectives, improves their writing and communication, encourages active engagement in your class, promotes self-reflection, and builds a supportive learning community.

Unlock Peer Power

Unlock Peer Power

Examples

• Peer Essay Review
• Peer Project Feedback
• Discussion Posts
• Lab Reports
• Peer Editing Workshops

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Facilitate Group Projects

Moodle groups

Zoom breakout rooms

Microsoft teams

microsoft loop

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Include Videos of Yourself in Your Courses

Panopto

Zoom

Microsoft powerpoint

Microsoft Loop

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Build Interactive Course Content

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Synchronous Engagement Opportunities

Zoom

Microsoft teams

microsoft loop

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Provide Opportunities for Audience Interaction

Zoom Survey/polls

Microsoft forms

Microsoft Loop

Kahoot

Padlet

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Enhance Your Students' Presentations

Microsoft PowerPoint

Canva

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Create Community Conversations

Microsoft Teams

Groupme

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Unlock Peer Power

Moodle workshop

Zoom whiteboard

microsoft loop

microsoft loop

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Engage students with Interactive video discussion

Moodle video forum

Panopto student videos

Microsoft loop

record videos in ppt

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Individualize Student Feedback

Moodle Assignments

Moodle Quizzes

Moodle forums

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h5p

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