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Community Building

Principle 2: Design in opportunities for community building

Provide opportunities for students to create connections with other students, with staff, and with others (e.g. employers, internationally) in person on-campus and online in the virtual learning environment.

Possible approaches

Possible approaches

What you can do

use supported discussions;
ensure sufficient time is provided for students to interact with one another (e.g. icebreakers, think-pair-share activities);
use group work;
active peer-to-peer and student-staff interactions;
explore opportunities for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL);
use the Virtual Learning Environment to promote interaction and collaborative learning to complement any live or synchronous sessions.

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