It is no secret that campus closures for COVID were quite abrupt and while faculty and learning designers were scrambling to migrate their courses online, student affairs educators were grappling with a wide array of hurdles. One hurdle facing James McGhee, Assistant Dean of Students, and Randolph Macon College was building an online community for students. To address this challenge, James created a Discord community. In this podcast, he’ll share how he got it started, why he selected Discord, what he created in the community, how it’s going today/ what students are using it for, and advice for folx considering building community in the online environment, specifically using Discord.
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Randolph Macon College Virtual Student Engagement Center Discord
