Building Community in an Online Class

While online courses are a vehicle for content delivery and consumption, the ideal scenario for a course is that it includes a sense of community between the participants: educators and students.  YouSeeU boasts a number of features but its main benefit is the ability to connect people, allowing instructors and their students to get to know each other as they learn.  In using video to work together through course content, the distance between individuals is eliminated and familiarity develops.  Dr. Lynda Randall describes the connection she’s able to establish with her students as she conducts video-based assignments.