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Best practices for creating social presence and caring behaviors online
Aim:
To identify best practices and evidence-based strategies for creating an online learning environment that encompasses caring behaviors and promotes social presence.
Background:
Faculty who teach online classes are challenged to create a sense of social presence and caring behaviors in a virtual world in which students feel connected and part of the learning environment.
Method:
To extrapolate evidence to support best practices, a review of literature was conducted focused on social presence and caring online.
Results:
Faculty messages that are respectful, positive, encouraging, timely, and frequent foster social presence and caring behaviors while also allowing for caring interactions, mutual respect, and finding meaning in relationships.
Conclusion:
A variety of measures to emulate caring online intertwine with social presence to promote a sense of caring and belonging. More research is needed to support the evidence for these strategies.
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