1. Scope and Methods of Online Instruction at the University of Central Florida Pavel Zemliansky, Ph.D Associate Professor and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum Department of Writing and Rhetoric UCF

2. Quick Facts About Online@UCF Approximately 1/3 of all credit hours at UCF are offered online 7 Undergraduate Programs are Online 6 Graduate Programs (MA,MS) are online 6 Graduate Certificates are Online

3. Theoretical Foundations for Online Learning Social Presence Interactivity Collaboration and communication

4. Social presence is the perception by members of an online learning environment that they are present at the site of learning not only virtually but also physically Social Presence

5. Interactivity User-to-system User-to-document User-to-User (Warnick, 2012)

6. Communication People communicating with other people, not with objects, such as websites and online applications

7. Reduced channels of communication result in reduced sense of social presence

8. Main Types of Online Interaction Synchronous Real time Asynchronous Users interact at their own pace

9. Technologies for Online Instruction Learning Management Systems (LMS) Synchronous communication software Social Media

10. Leading Learning Management Systems Blackboard Desire-to-Learn Angel Canvas

11. Synchronous and Social Media Adobe Connect Skype Twitter Google Docs Etherpad

12. Establishing interactivity and improved communication in an online Canvas-based course

13. The communication strategies teachers choose will depend on your subject, your class, and your teaching style

14. Some Available Communication Strategies Establish multiple student-to-student and student-to-teacher channels of communication Require and encourage students to speak to one another Use Frequently Asked Questions forums Have students collaborate on projects when appropriate

15. Canvas’s Communication Channels Discussion forums Messages (inbox) Comments on assignments (text and multimedia) Announcements and front page “stream” Chat Google Docs and Etherpad Facebook and Twitter integration Conferences

16. An Online Graduate Course in Proposal Writing

17. Collaborative Projects Using Google Docs

18. Discussions

19. First-Year Writing

20. Assignment Discussion through Messages

21. Comments on an Assignment Submitted by a Student

22. Questions and Discussion Pavel Zemliansky pzemliansky@ucf.edu