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5 Essential Steps to Building Community for Your Online Course

July 6, 2015

A body shapes representing community.

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"Learning online can be a very lonely process. You sit with your computer, working for the most part in a quarantined digital island, unaware of your peers and their struggles in the course. In this post I want to highlight some ways of connecting online students and creating a vibrant learning community.

Before we move forward though, take a look back at the 10 tips I listed in previous posts on how to plan and teach an online course.

Okay, on to the business of building an online community. Here are some ideas I have tried while making courses on Python Programming and iPhone App Development with Udacity."

Continue reading  Part 3 of Kunal Chawla's four part series at edSurge