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"Online students need to feel an instructor presence in their classes. Thorough explanations and effective communication help fulfill this need and can transform a mediocre online course into a great one—and it all starts with a detailed syllabus ..." Via Leona Ungerer 
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Marcia D. Dixson of Indiana University-Purdue University and a team of researchers conducted a study to learn more about the types of immediacy behaviors instructors should use to enhance their students’ learning.
Dennis Swender's insight:
The responses that facilitators make to individual participants reveal a feeling tone of acceptance, encouragement, dismissal, and the like. Participants quickly pick up on the frequency of instructor responses to individuals, the quantity of the individual responses, whether the participant response is affirmed or simply acknowledged, whether the response is genuine or general.
This is where participant demographics of race, gender, age, academic level, etc. may inadvertently be assumed to play a biased role to favor some participants more than others. Consequently, could it sometimes help for all participants, including the facilitator, to maintain some degree of online demographic privacy - at least until the end of a course? Or, are participant identities an important asset in responding to different perspectives?
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