cu online winter webcamp 2011 -- professorial authority and social presence in the online classroom

Power in the Classroom

Professorial AuthorityProfessorial Authority

Problem: Students feel like they are missing something in an online class

Students feel like they are missing something in an online class

But what are they missing?

* The physical envrionment* Other students?* The professor?

But what are they missing?--The physical environment--Other students--The professor

What is social presence? How does it work in the classroom? How can it work in the online classroom?

Another problem: Social presence has come to mean being friends with your students.

But is that what they really want?

But do we need to hug our students?

Hypothesis: The university is best at getting students to engage and interact with peers and experts.

Other students are their peers, and that's a topic worth examaining.

But how do we get them to interact with experts?

What's the role of the University?

InteractExpert Access

Hubert Dreyfus

University of California, Berkley, Leading scholar on Heidegger, phenomenology and critic of artificial intelligence

Expert Access

So why pay Berkley tuition?

http://www.howtogetin.com/colleges/university-of-california-berkeley/expenses.php

InteractExpertAccess

InteractExpert Access

InteractExpert Access

InteractExpert Access

So if the value is in interacting with experts, then we know where to focus more of our effort:

1. In establishing our expertise• Providing students meaningful

interaction with that expertise.

Share your expertise

Reputation Strategies1.Look the part (and post a picture!)2.Set your academic rank in eCollege3.Provide a biography. 4.Add a "course argument" to your syllabus5.Link to your work. Research, presentations,

television spots, articles about you.6.Assign your articles.7.Name drop.8.Invite guest speakers to present in your

class

Reputation Strategies1.Look the part (and post a picture!)2.Set your academic rank in eCollege3.Provide a biography. 4.Add a "course argument" to your syllabus5.Link to your work. Research, presentations,

television spots, articles about you.6.Assign your articles.7.Name drop.8.Invite guest speakers to present in your

class

Reputation Strategies1.Look the part (and post a picture!)2.Set your academic rank in eCollege3.Provide a biography. 4.Add a "course argument" to your syllabus5.Link to your work. Research, presentations,

television spots, articles about you.6.Assign your articles.7.Name drop.8.Invite guest speakers to present in your

class

Reputation Strategies1.Look the part (and post a picture!)2.Set your academic rank in eCollege3.Provide a biography. 4.Add a "course argument" to your syllabus5.Link to your work. Research, presentations,

television spots, articles about you.6.Assign your articles.7.Name drop.8.Invite guest speakers to present in your

class

Reputation Strategies1.Look the part (and post a picture!)2.Set your academic rank in eCollege3.Provide a biography. 4.Add a "course argument" to your syllabus5.Link to your work. Research, presentations,

television spots, articles about you.6.Assign your articles.7.Name drop.8.Invite guest speakers to present in your

class

Reputation Strategies1.Look the part (and post a picture!)2.Set your academic rank in eCollege3.Provide a biography. 4.Add a "course argument" to your syllabus5.Link to your work. Research, presentations,

television spots, articles about you.6.Assign your articles.7.Name drop.8.Invite guest speakers to present in your

class

Reputation Strategies1.Look the part (and post a picture!)2.Set your academic rank in eCollege3.Provide a biography. 4.Add a "course argument" to your syllabus5.Link to your work. Research, presentations,

television spots, articles about you.6.Assign your articles.7.Name drop.8.Invite guest speakers to present in your

class

Reputation Strategies1.Look the part (and post a picture!)2.Set your academic rank in eCollege3.Provide a biography. 4.Add a "course argument" to your syllabus5.Link to your work. Research, presentations,

television spots, articles about you.6.Assign your articles.7.Name drop.8.Invite guest speakers to present in your

class

1.Participate in discussions (and structure discussions so you can provide meaningful discussion)

2.Quiz the professor. Create fun activities that allows students to interact with you.

3.Collaborative research. Let students work with you on research. Attach assignment to your research agenda (within limits).

Interaction Strategies

1.Participate in discussions (and structure discussions so you can provide meaningful discussion)

2.Quiz the professor. Create fun activities that allows students to interact with you.

3.Collaborative research. Let students work with you on research. Attach assignment to your research agenda (within limits).

Interaction Strategies

1.Participate in discussions (and structure discussions so you can provide meaningful discussion)

2.Quiz the professor. Create fun activities that allows students to interact with you.

3.Collaborative research. Let students work with you on research. Attach assignment to your research agenda (within limits).

Interaction Strategies

What did we miss?