This document outlines principles, guidelines, and strategies for establishing an effective online learning community. It discusses the importance of social presence and cognitive presence. For social presence, it emphasizes establishing trust among participants and providing opportunities for collaboration. For cognitive presence, it stresses creating opportunities for critical reflection and discourse to support systematic inquiry. The document then provides guidelines and example strategies for each principle across four dimensions: design/organization, facilitation, direct instruction, and assessment. Overall, it argues the teacher plays a key role in setting norms, modeling behaviors, addressing conflicts, and ensuring the discourse progresses through stages of inquiry to reach resolution.