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Keynote: Fostering Connections and Community Online: Engagement and SelfCare Strategies to Promote Faculty and Student Wellbeing Flower Darby When we intentionally work to connect with our students as people and facilitate connections between students, our online teaching and learning experiences will be more rewarding, more fulfilling, and less draining. Employing strategies for doing so in a time-efficient way could promote work/life balance for faculty primarily but perhaps also for students.
Speaker bio Flower Darby (she/her) celebrates and promotes effective teaching in all class formats to include, welcome, and support all students as they learn and succeed. As faculty and an instructional designer, she’s taught community college and university classes for over 25 years in a range of subjects including English, Technology, Leadership, Dance, and Pilates. A seasoned face-to-face and online educator, Darby loves to apply learning science across the disciplines, and to help others do the same. Flower speaks, writes, presents and consults on teaching and learning theory and practice both nationally and internationally. She has helped educators all over the world become more effective in their work. She is the author, with James M. Lang, of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes, and she’s a columnist for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Her new book on emotion science and teaching with technology is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press. https://flowerdarby.com/profile/
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