A Human Touch: Teacher Presence in Online Classes

In this episode, Alex and Camie discuss how vital teacher presence is for fully online courses for student success, instructor’s benefit, and meeting federal guidelines for asynchronous courses. We take a moment at the beginning to remember those lost and those who served in the time of need on September 11th, 2001 as this episode launched on the 22nd anniversary of this tragedy.

We also want to make one clarifying note – around the 2:00 minute mark, Alex and Camie discuss Laura Ingalls Wilders’ book series The Little House on the Prairie. A comment is made regarding the land being “not settled”. This comment is not meant to be taken as insensitive to the realities of that era. We acknowledge that the areas were settled by indigenous peoples, and we were describing the premise of the book, which is a fictionalization of Wilder’s childhood stories.

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Extra Resources:

Regular and Substantive Interaction: Background, Concerns, and Guiding Principles

Bailey K. “There’s Nothing Virtual About Online Connections” (2020). Ohio Wesleyan University.

Rivers, J. “Why Strong Student-Teacher Relationships Are Vital” (2023). Cengage.

The Importance of Instructor Presence – UARK Global Campus TIPS