Building a Community in Online Classes: The Value of Video Discussion for Online Learning
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One of the key difficulties in online teaching is helping students establish the social presence necessary for an effective community of inquiry. Text-based communication between students eliminates non-verbal communication creating the potential for miscommunication. (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 1999). Through intentional design, instructors can facilitate social presence in online classes (Darby & Lang, 2019). One option to do this is by having students record video submissions for discussion boards. For the past two years I have implemented video discussions in my online and broadcast courses. While this was originally done for pedagogical reasons, I have found through student feedback that these video discussions have also fostered my students' social presence in those courses. While most of my students (74%) were apprehensive about the requirement of video discussions, the majority of students (95%) indicated positive feelings about the assignments by the end of the semester. Almost all students (97%) recommended the continued use of video discussions. In their feedback my students indicate that video discussions were valuable in helping them to build relationships with me as the instructor and with each other- something that is typically lacking in their other online courses.
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Building a Community in Online Classes: The Value of Video Discussion for Online Learning
One of the key difficulties in online teaching is helping students establish the social presence necessary for an effective community of inquiry. Text-based communication between students eliminates non-verbal communication creating the potential for miscommunication. (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 1999). Through intentional design, instructors can facilitate social presence in online classes (Darby & Lang, 2019). One option to do this is by having students record video submissions for discussion boards. For the past two years I have implemented video discussions in my online and broadcast courses. While this was originally done for pedagogical reasons, I have found through student feedback that these video discussions have also fostered my students' social presence in those courses. While most of my students (74%) were apprehensive about the requirement of video discussions, the majority of students (95%) indicated positive feelings about the assignments by the end of the semester. Almost all students (97%) recommended the continued use of video discussions. In their feedback my students indicate that video discussions were valuable in helping them to build relationships with me as the instructor and with each other- something that is typically lacking in their other online courses.