Social Presence

Social Presence

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Dublin City University, OpenTeach

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Teaching & Learning

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Digital Learning, Student Success, Teaching and Learning Practice

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CC BY-NC

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A resource containing a suite of approaches to achieve social presence with online teaching. Each approach is aimed at establishing a sense of a learning community, enabling meaningful and in-depth interactions where learning experiences can be shared.

Benefit of this resource and how to make the best use of it

It is important to establish social presence at the beginning of the course and to maintain this presence throughout the course. This can be achieved by you, the online educator, in several ways. This resource provides some best practice tips.

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Dublin City University, and OpenTeach (2021). Social presence. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/social-presence/ License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC).

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