Education Workshop 5: Building Empathy and Rapport in Online Courses: Making a Personal Connection
9:00 to 11:00 AM
This presentation explores the opportunities to build rapport with online students through empathetic presence in both synchronous and asynchronous courses. In many online courses students feel a disconnection with their instructors. Through this presentation we will discuss the opportunities that exist to recreate making a personal connection with students in the online arena.
Participants will be able to:
- Define empathy in online teaching.
- Describe the differences in the template versus instructor autonomy model of online curriculum development.
- Develop empathetic instructor presence in an online program.
- Develop practices that faciliate the instructors ability to display empathy to student needs through synchronous and asynchronous environments.
- Describe how to develop rapport with students in the online commensurate with face to face instruction.
Registration:
- The single workshop price is $95.
- The series of 10 workshops price is $750.
- As of July 8, 2020, please contact Patrick Litzinger or Tina Gitelman directly at corporateprograms@rmu.edu or 412-397-6383 to register for any individual workshop in the series.
Instructor: Dr. Richard Fuller
Dr. Richard Fuller is a Professor of Education and serves as the Interim Director of the Ph.D. in Instructional Management and Leadership program and is the Director of the Center for Innovative Teaching at Robert Morris University. Dr. Fuller teaches graduate and doctoral courses in instructional leadership, instructional design for traditional and distance education, and educational technology. He has over 40 years’ experience in education as an administrator, instructor and trainer. He received his Doctorate of Education from The Penn State University. His research interests center on leadership and motivation, creating interaction in distance education pedagogies, and how the use of technology can enhance learning.