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Workshops » Teaching and Learning Development Workshop Series 2009/10

TEL@YORK Series: Online Strategies for Keeping Students on Track

Anne MacLennan (Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of LA&PS)

  • Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
  • Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Location: 1014 TEL

Practicum Category: Teaching with technology

Student Sam is an online persona, and a pedagogical tool, who goes through the course with students, helping to keep them on track with their course work. I introduced Student Sam in my course during the 2008/09 academic year as a means of keeping the students in a large class on track. There is a huge level
of denial about the completion of academic work and what other students are or are not doing in a large classroom setting. Students who seek out Sam online: have a focus for worries and stresses; have a tool to determine where they should be in the course; and a means to remember what they might be forgetting. Sam turned out to be a lightning rod for students during his inaugural year. Come and explore how you might apply this strategy within your own context.

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