Activities for building student engagement in online courses
Creatively Engaging Online Students: Models and Activities
Student dissatisfaction, apathy and, increasingly, attrition threaten to derail the progress of online education. During this informative video presentation, you’ll learn about proven and practical activities for keeping your students engaged in your online programs, all from one of higher education’s leading technology experts…and most entertaining presenters.
90-Recording of Video Online Seminar • Originally Broadcast October 16, 2009 • $279
Remember the professor who would fire rubber bands at students with heavy eyelids? How about the one who would sneak up on dozing students and slam a paddle on their desks?
Aside from the fact that those techniques aren’t the most pedagogically sound approaches for keeping students awake much less engaged, they’re also not transferable to the online classroom. And if anyone could use a few teaching tricks, it’s online instructors . Ask anyone who’s taught online and they will tell you that student engagement–or, rather, the lack of it–is a critical problem in distance learning today. Even students who are successful in the online classroom admit that it takes extra motivation to stay on top of their learning.
So when you teach online, how do you make sure your online classroom is “engaged”?
Fortunately, you do have tools at your disposal to keep your students interested, involved, engaged, and firmly on the path to successful learning. No rubberbands required.
In Creatively Engaging Online Students: Models & Activities, Dr. Curtis Bonk, Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University, addresses growing concerns about a lack of engagement in the online classroom. Get a copy of this seminar if you want to:
- Learn how to address student learning preferences online.
- Discover ways to motivate students in online environments with Dr. Bonk’s innovative TEC-VARIETY model.
- Take home a minimum of a dozen ideas you can use in your classrooms and programs.
- Get the facts on two unique ways of thinking about teaching and learning in online environments.
- Hear about a wealth of low-risk, low-cost, low-time activities.
- Create a vision of what you would like your classroom to be, and develop a plan to achieve it.
- Understand how the example you set online can help (or harm) your students.
- Learn to build peer and expert feedback into your online classes with techniques like critical friends and cross-institutional mentoring.
- Find out how to successfully prepare students for the rigors of online learning.
In Creatively Engaging Online Students: Models & Activities, Dr. Curt Bonk will provide a wealth of tips and techniques you can put to work in your online classroom right now.
Dr. Bonk is an author, international speaker and respected authority on distance learning and educational technology. Recently named “one of the top 10 U.S. e-learning gurus,” he has a distinctive, high-energy presentation style that will keep you engaged and entertained throughout.
Who will benefit:
- Professors, instructors, educators, lecturers
- Online facilitators, tutors, mentors, moderators
- Teaching and learning center personnel
- Instructional designers and media specialists
- E-learning evaluators
- E-learning program developers
- Other e-learning specialists and administrators
- Those interested in emerging learning technologies
Join us for a look at the best in student-engagement strategies online … presented by one of the leading authorities in the field.
Featured Higher Education Presenter:
Curtis J. Bonk is Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University. He has a popular blog called TravelinEdMan and is the author of The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education as well as Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Ideas, for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing.
90-Recording of Video Online Seminar • Originally Broadcast October 16, 2009 • $279
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