Online Teaching: Putting a Human Face to a Name Makes a Difference With Denise Maduli-Williams

The capacity to personalize the interaction with remote learners is critical in all kinds of distance education. It is important for teachers to understand that it's not about them, but about the learners. They need to focus on designing an engaging learning experience for their students.

You want to generate great online videos, but you also want to make your online discussion boards more interesting, while also bringing equity and diversity into your online classrooms through synchronous and asynchronous activities. Meanwhile, you're attempting to maximize your time and manage your online office hours while also assisting students who are having difficulty navigating the online world. And you're doing it all while a pandemic is raging. Does this ring a bell?

Denise has spent over two decades teaching English to native and non-native speakers in a variety of contexts. She has worked in a California jail, a Botswana hamlet as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and New York City public high schools before settling at community colleges.

She is currently an Associate Professor and Online Accessibility Mentor at San Diego Miramar College, where she teaches online, hybrid, and in-person courses. She is also a professor at the University of San Diego, where she teaches graduate students. She's also a PhD student who's looking into the role of social presence in online learning achievement.

Denise feels that equitable, humanized online experiences help students succeed.

0:00 Introduction
0:38 Meet Denise
2:06 Using videos to build rapport with online learners
6:51 How Denise creates her videos and posting them on social media
9:30 Discussing the challenges and opportunities of online teaching
14:56 The importance of listening to faculty for decision making in education
17:32 How was the online learning experience for students and what do they want from now on
23:38 Benefits of introducing portfolios to online students
28:07 Denise's students experience with portfolios
29:30 Why Denise decided to go back to school and her current research
33:28 Denise's thoughts about higher education today and moving forward

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