{"id":32703,"date":"2025-06-27T14:40:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/online\/?page_id=32703"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:40:31","slug":"cultivating-a-learning-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/online\/cultivating-a-learning-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivating a Learning Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Particularly in an online course, transforming a class of individual students into a collaborative and cohesive learning community can increase engagement and satisfaction, which leads to retention and student success. However, it rarely happens by accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"quick-reads\">Quick Reads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"quick\">Quick reads are short articles and videos that reflect on or summarize current thinking, research, or experiences related to the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns equal-height is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/online-education\/five-ways-to-build-community-in-online-classroom\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Five Ways to Build Community in Online Classrooms<\/h2><p>From Faculty Focus &#8211; Being deliberate, consistent, and relentless, we can build communities in our online courses that help students to connect with not only the course materials, but with one another.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"http:\/\/designingforlearning.info\/four-types-of-discussion-forums-in-online-courses\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Four Types of Discussion Forums in Online Courses<\/h2><p>Often discussion forums are the challenge for you and students and can fall into a &#8216;typical&#8217; structure. Dr. Judith Boettcher shares different strategies and formats for utilizing the discussion function for different teaching purposes.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1M3EFgDFqwiPhnCnFJd3Z6OFvfVmsUlI6\/view\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Tips for Facilitating Asynchronous Discussions<\/h2><p>Our Online Education team has pulled together effective tips for facilitating this way of engaging with students unique to the online environment.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Particularly in an online course, transforming a class of individual students into a collaborative and cohesive learning community can increase engagement and satisfaction, which leads to retention and student success. However, it rarely happens by accident. Quick Reads Quick reads are short articles and videos that reflect on or summarize current thinking, research, or experiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4701,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-32703","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32704,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32703\/revisions\/32704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}