“Keeping Your Sanity While Staying in Touch: Managing Communication in the Online Classroom”

Patricia James
Dean of Instruction: Library and Technology
Mt. San Jacinto College

Brief Description:
This session will cover techniques for managing email, discussion forums, announcements, and e-conference sessions with distance education students. The session will offer ideas that will save time while enhancing the quality of your communication with your distance education students. Successful online courses will be used to demonstrate a variety of methods that can be used to keep your students engaged in course activities. Participants will leave with ideas that can be put into immediate action.

What three specific things will attendees learn from your session?

• How to successfully manage email communications with online students.
• How to develop successful discussion activities that keep students engaged.
• How to use a variety of communication techniques within your course to ensure student success.