Campus Conversations, an online professional development series on key topics related to online education in the face of rapidly changing technology, took place on February 9 when Dr Michelle Pacansky-Brock presented Humanizing Online Learning: Leveraging Relationships to Fuel Engagement and Rigor.
During this webcast, cohosted by the University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of Nebraska Online, Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock, author of Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies, covered how educators humanize their approach to online learning as they navigate these unknown and traumatic times.
In the presentation, she covered:
- How educators must be knowledgeable about how learning happens (and why it does not)
- How to recognize the affective and cognitive dimensions of learning
- The need to understand out students as humans with rich, complicated stories
- How to foster positive instructor-student relationships at a distance to ensure all students are poised for success.
The session illuminated how humanized online teaching provides a foundation of trust you can build upon in your course and foster rigor through empathy.
If you would like a recording of the presentation, please contact online@nebraska.edu.
About the speaker:
Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock’s work has helped online instructors across the nation understand how to craft relevant, humanized online learning experiences that support the diverse needs of college students. In her current role as Faculty Mentor for the California Community Colleges CVC-OEI/@ONE, she coordinates professional development in support of quality online teaching and learning and is leading an intersegmental California Learning Lab grant project that will examine the impact of humanized online instruction on diverse students in undergraduate online STEM courses in California.
More about Campus Conversations:
Campus Conversations is an online professional development series focused on key topics related to education in the face of rapidly changing technology. The University of Nebraska Online, in partnership with each NU campus, cohosts a series of talks on key topics related to online education in the face of rapidly changing technology. The event takes place multiple times throughout the academic year and features nationally recognized speakers to share information about topics of interest to those involved in online learning. These events are offered free of charge to University of Nebraska faculty and staff.
NU Online would like to thank the following sponsors for their support in Campus Conversations and NU Amplify 2021: Innovation in Pedagogy and IT: Aruba, Connection, Cox Business, DataVizion and Unzin.