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>> My name is Bobbie Dunham-Carter.
I am the organizational learning specialist
at Nova Scotia Community College.
I'm going to talk to you a little bit
about being the online instructor and a good quality
for an online instructor to have
to communicate with their students.
And one of the best things that I've seen is online instructors
who can be honest, open, and vulnerable with their students.
Be willing to make, to make mistakes and be willing
to find other experts who are their students to work with.
So, put yourself out there,
and the students will be more comfortable.
>> How can you, I mean, how do we help faculty to through
that experience in, in kind of a safe way
because they might not be comfortable
with taking that particular risk?
Are there any strategies that we can use as either designers
or supporters to help them kind of get to that place?
I'm thinking, for example,
one of the things we could do is is to, is to be there for them.
To be there in the background,
let them know that, yes, we're trying.
This is a little different for you, but I'm right here.
I'm an e-mail away, or, I mean, does that tend to work?
>> Dunham-Carter: Having a support structure in place
so that comfortable to make mistakes is really important,
but at the same time, putting faculty in the environment
where they aren't making mistakes.
Getting them experimenting with the courses, having them working
with the instructional designers instead
of the designers doing all the work, and,
and passing it to the faculty.
So feeling vulnerable first and then being able to understand
that when the students come into the class
and they're vulnerable, you can understand it and you can relate
to express that you were there yourself.
>> Terrific.
Thank you.