Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence
Would you like to be involved in a project that will investigate online experiences and help staff to develop research-informed online teaching that supports students’ learning?
Authenticity and connection in online learning
Are you interested in how the online environment shapes our self-awareness and relating to others: our authenticity, identity, sense of connection, engagement, belonging, inclusion and consequent ability to learn?
Factors such as telepresence (Turkle 2004), self-consciousness (of own image), unnatural frontality, bonding and body visibility, implications of no videos on trust and engagement, the online disinhibition effect, abrupt transitions, the blurring of public and private space and digital inequalities are crucial to navigate in ways which promote inclusion and belonging for all students and staff.
Would you like to be involved in a project that will investigate online experiences and help staff to develop research-informed online teaching that supports students’ learning?
This opportunity will also enhance your own understanding of the psychology of online learning.
Involvement will require attending a seminar on the subject and then joining participative inquiry action research groups, which will meet monthly from October until March 2023 for two hours each time, on the following Mondays from 2.30-4.30pm:
- 17/10/22
- 21/11/22
- 12/12/22
- 16/1/23
- 27/2/23
- (20/3/23 backup)
The groups will focus on particular psychological factors at each meeting and aim to devise recommendations for best practice.
You will be acknowledged in the resultant guidelines if you choose to be.
Contact Gillian Proctor at g.m.proctor@leeds.ac.uk for further information.
- Contact: Gillian Proctor g.m.proctor@leeds.ac.uk
- Ethical approval reference number: AREA 21-122
- Closing date for participants: 17 October 2022