I learned that myths about projecting presence and establishing rapport with students continue to propgated. As an e-learner, I don't want to post a biography, I don't want to read biograpphies. I am not impressed with degrees etc, I know many and educated person with an alphabet behind their name that still doesn't seem to know anything. I have taken classes where the instructor knew less than students who have previously or currently self studying a topic. It doesn't take long to figure out if an instructor is qualified to teach the course regardless of what they post in their biographyPresence is projected through engagement and participation yes, authority and respect come from interactions, earning it, not by bigraphies and ice breakers.
