b'Rebecca Hogue (@rjhogue). Rebecca teaches instructional design in the online Master\\u2019s of Instructional Design program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. In other words, she teaches how to teach online...online. Rebecca describes some of the strategies that she uses to enable the development of learning community in this very meta environment. Rebecca also describes her involvement in the origin story of one of the most wonderful learning communities out there, Virtually Connecting.'