12037

12037

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (20 minutes, no formal paper)

Candice Allen, Western Governors University, Churubusco, Indiana, USA, candiceallen00@gmail.com
 * Best Practices of Effective Student Mentor**

Student mentoring is can be a highly effective way to successfully guide/support online learners. In this presentation, I will explain the best practices of effective mentoring and why online teaching environments should have mentors. Also, how instructors can be mentors. The overall goal of a mentor is to prepare students to succeed in an online environment. My effective mentoring techniques involves high touch weekly involvement utilizing adobe connect, phone, email, postcards, join.me sessions, and providing as many layers of support as possible.

All Audiences student mentoring, online communication tools,