Facilitating Online Learning Communities: Communicating with Students

Facilitating Online Learning Communities: Communicating with Students

Course Details

Course Type:

• Self-Paced, Fully-Facilitated
• Cohort, Fully-Facilitated

Course Length: 10 Hours

Course Access:

• Self-Paced: Each course includes 45 days of interactive access. If you purchase multiple courses within a single concentration at the same time, your total access period will be extended (e.g., two courses = 90 days, three courses = 135 days, etc.).
  
  Upon enrollment, your dashboard will initially display 45 days per course. By the next business day, your end date will be adjusted to reflect the correct total access period based on the number of courses purchased.
  
  After your enrollment period ends, you will continue to have read-only access to your courses.
• Cohort: Participants will follow a set start and end date, determined by their school district.

Course Description

This course is designed to enhance online facilitation skills across any learning platform. Participants will develop and refine effective online communication strategies to improve student engagement, feedback, and course facilitation.

Key areas of focus include:

• • Developing effective online communication strategies and best practices
  • Utilizing multiple tools for student interaction and engagement
  • Managing assessments and feedback in a structured and supportive way
  • Navigating challenges and conflict in the online learning environment
  • Creating a personalized action plan for future online course facilitation

This course provides strategies to engage diverse learners, support various learning styles, and build a dynamic and reflective online learning community.

By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with essential skills and tools to foster meaningful and effective communication in online learning environments.

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Understand effective communication strategies with stakeholders, including the use of social media.
• Analyze and apply data to ensure student growth, build family partnerships, and support decision-making.
• Identify the impact of high expectations on student learning and strategies for communicating these expectations to teachers.
• Explain the role of formative assessment and feedback in supporting teacher growth and instructional improvement.
• Explore core concepts of distributed leadership and practical approaches to foster shared leadership in schools.
• Investigate shared decision-making principles, including framing problems and involving stakeholders in solution generation.
• Examine relational leadership strategies for building trust, mutual accountability, and positive professional relationships.
• Develop strategies for creating collaborative frameworks and building time into schedules for planning and professional development.
• Assess resource allocation, budgeting, and the community’s role in promoting equity and enhancing learning opportunities.
• Understand the importance of digital equity, and create plans to address the digital divide and improve technology access for students.