Online course facilitation is critical to the success of online courses. Instructors use various facilitation strategies in online courses to engage students. One hundred instructors were surveyed on their perception of helpfulness of twelve different facilitation strategies used in online courses to enhance instructor presence, instructor connection, engagement and learning. Instructors’ timely response to questions and instructors’ timely feedback on assignments/projects were rated the highest in three of four constructs (instructor presence, engagement and learning). For instructor connection, ability to contact the instructor in multiple ways was rated the highest. Interactive visual syllabi of the course was rated the lowest in all four constructs. In the open-ended comments, group projects and synchronous sessions were rated helpful. Descriptive statistics for each of the construct by gender, delivery method, course level taught are presented. Significant differences were found between gender but analysis of variance failed to detect differences between primary delivery method or course level taught.

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便利事项：讲师对在线课程中便利策略有用性的认识

在线课程的便利化对于在线课程的成功至关重要。教师在在线课程中使用各种促进策略来吸引学生。对一百名教师进行了调查，调查了他们对在线课程中使用的十二种不同促进策略的有用性的看法，以提高教师的存在感，建立教师联系，参与和学习。在四个构想中（教员的存在，参与和学习）中的三个，教员对问题的及时回答和教员对作业/项目的及时反馈被评为最高。对于讲师连接，以多种方式与讲师联系的能力被评为最高。该课程的交互式视觉教学大纲在所有四个结构中被评为最低。在开放式评论中，小组项目和同步会话被评为有用。给出了按性别，授课方式，所教课程级别对每个结构的描述性统计数据。发现性别之间存在显着差异，但方差分析未能检测到主要授课方法或所授课程水平之间的差异。