Share Paper: Micro-Assists: Enhancing Learner Support while Teaching Digitally

  1. Caroline M. Crawford, University of Houston-Clear Lake, United States
Monday, October 26 11:30-11:45 AM Room 1

Abstract: Micro-assists can be defined as vignettes of useful information support the momentary needs of the learners within digital environments. Teaching within a digital environment, these assistive vignettes are naturally necessary to support and guide the learners within the instructional learning management system (LMS) environment, as well as through cognitive support and guidance efforts. These micro-assists are created by the instructional facilitator as a normal engagement-response effort, but these vignettes may also be created and shared by learners who represent course-based understandings, conceptual frameworks of engagement, or even proactively supporting colleagues with an unusual tip or trick within the course experience.