Compassionate Online Course Design

This video will help you humanize the learning experience in your online course by displaying transparency and vulnerability. By incorporating laughter and stories, students make connections between the course and their lived experiences.

To improve your students’ online learning experience, you should adopt a pedagogy of care that emphasizes compassion, connection, and support. By modeling care, encouraging dialogue, and affirming student efforts, you can reduce isolation and boost engagement in virtual classrooms.

This article captures how online instructors can emphasize the value of authentic content, multimedia, student-generated work, and clear purpose in course design. Implementing these practices fosters deeper engagement, reflection, and meaningful learning in your courses.

To build community in an online course, consider having students participate in virtual breakout room stations to co-create expectations, norms, and connections. This structured, interactive approach promotes engagement, equity, and shared responsibility for a respectful and supportive online learning space.

This resource explores how engaging teaching requires stimulating students' curiosity and providing opportunities for active involvement. Capturing four principles for student engagement, you will note practical strategies for application in any instructional setting.