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Patrice Prusko

How to Make Your Online Students Feel Connected - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus - 0 views

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  • What we’ve found through our research is students are more likely to persist in their online courses if they’re engaged in and outside of their courses and the educational experience is personalized.”
  • For example, each student who’s accepted receives a congratulatory phone call from the program director or academic adviser welcoming him or her to the program. The students then go through an online orientation where the presenters include the Dean of Students and faculty, as well as representatives from the writing center, library, support services, financial aid, disability services and student life.
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  • program hosts a virtual tea party
Patrice Prusko

Managing Instructor Presence and Workload, Boosting Student Engagement | Faculty Focus - 1 views

  • Of utmost importance is setting the expectation for student participation from the first day they log in to the course.
  • The instructor does need to plan to be more frequently present in the first few weeks to encourage and reinforce this participation.
  • It’s particularly important that instructors notice when students aren’t participating and give them a gentle nudge
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  • students should be provided with rubrics
  • personalized feedback
  • student-to-student interaction is essential
  • it really begins at the course design
  • Incorporating assignments such as student-led discussions, wikis or blogs, student-prepared study guides, student-generated test questions, peer assessments, group projects, problem-based assignments, and question/answer areas in which students can respond to each other is the foundation for generating student participation. Similarly, discussion questions or topics need to be carefully designed to generate multiple thoughtful responses rather than soliciting simple yes or no or single correct answer responses. When this type of interaction is built into a course from the ground up through scaffolded or interrelated assignments, student-to-student interaction becomes the main expectation of the course, rather than the exception.
  • ncreasing student-to-student interaction in online courses asks learners to become stronger critical thinkers. They must not only read and understand the text, but must also develop good questions that elicit responses from their classmates and formulate responses that further the discussion and encourage ideas from others.
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