“Break the “fourth wall.” “We don’t have the luxury of bumping into our students on the coffee line. Set up a 15-minute welcome call with students to talk to them about their learning style, what about the content may scare them or excite them, and how you can partner with them so that they thrive. Online faculty need to become a much more embodied human presence to our students. They will give that back to us, but we have to put it out first.”

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Members-Can-Build/244826