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General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

//Marla Cartwright, Kaplan University Online, USA, mcartwright@kaplan.edu//
 * Winning Students over in Week 1: Establishing Classroom Community for Student Success**

As online instructors, we generally realize the importance of creating a strong, interactive classroom community that ensures students feel connected to the instructor, their classmates and the curriculum, and that increases student engagement with the course content. However, it can be a challenge to actually implement strategies that culminate in the strong classroom community we aim for. One key is the timing of community building strategies. This session will provide attendees with tangible ideas and instruction that they can start implementing in their classes during the crucial first week of class.

All Audiences student retention, student engagement, classroom community