What is Learner to Instructor Interaction?

Connect Learner to instructor interaction includes any communication between the teacher and the students. Whole group online meetings, small group online meetings, emails, comments on assignments, and any feedback that instructors provide on assignments. In an online environment, learner to instructor interactions are more planned than the way they spontaneously happen in a traditional classroom, but are just as important!

Feedback is an essential piece of Learner to Instructor interaction. "Feedback in educational context is information provided to a learner to reduce the gap between current performance and a desired goal." (Sadler, 1989). Feedback is top 8 on the Teaching Domain and 32 overall for John Hattie's "Influences and Effect Sizes Related to Student Achievement" .

Planning questions for teachers around Learner to Instructor interaction:

How will I, the Instructor, plan for frequent communication and feedback with my students in an online environment? Types of communication to plan for: office hours, live synchronous sessions, discussion boards, one on one help, whole class communications for information distribution, formative feedback as students are working on an assignment, and summative feedback after an assignment or assessment is completed.