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Promoting Wellness in the Online Community || Ellen Manning, Kaplan University, Florida, United States, emanning@kaplan.edu || The concept of wellness must be acknowledged, developed and infused in all areas of an online community in order to provide students, faculty, and staff with information and suggestions for maintaining healthy, well balanced lives, thus encouraging better student and faculty participation and retention.
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Seven presenters in three separate groups will explore research related to wellness modalities in the online classroom and to professional development areas. Group One will focus on students in both synchronous and asynchronous components of an online classroom. Group 2 will explore how faculty and staff can assess where they are in key life dimensions and how their life situations are either in or out of balance. The final group will compare and contrast how Optimism or Positive Thinking affects the faculty member. All presentations will provide additional material regarding specific techniques discussed and how to locate further research sources. || General session Forum All ||
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