What is important is demonstrating to our students that we are experimenting with the tools we have on hand, looking for new ways of creating interactions that allow for the exchange of unexpected ideas, and for ways that our students can feel like they are seen and heard. Below is a faculty driven video about creating community, which is part of a series of specific pedagogical topics. As you stumble across things that work, please share them in the conversation posted here. -- Allie n Steve Mullen, SAIC Associate Professor, Adjunct
"How to Build an Online Learning Community: 6 Theses", by Jesse Stommel, Digital Studies at University of Mary Washington.
"Building Community", (Link from Flaxman ebook) from Small Teaching Online : Applying Learning Science in Online Classes, by Darby Flowers and James M. Lang