The Importance of Online Student Engagement
One way to think of online student engagement may be to consider the role of class participation. How can you design your course so that students can fully participate with you, classmates, and the learning material? Active learning and group interactions are key in this endeavor. Students who are engaged are learning, so explicitly building course components with engagement in mind make make the difference of students persisting or not.
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Student Engagement Strategies for the Online Learning EnvironmentStudent perspectives on how they define engagement in their online courses.
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Active Learning in an Online CourseThis site describes active learning and provides some active learning teaching approaches that can be modified for your own instructional content.
Measuring Engagement and Student Learning
Student engagement is an important factor to measure in student learning and course outcomes. Employing approaches to measure student engagement throughout your course can provide you with important formative assessment of student learning. Some means of assessing student engagement might include the quantity and quality of participation in online discussions and activities, hours spent in online course modules, or student self-assessments of their engagement level.
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Measuring Student Engagement in the Online Course: The Online Student Engagement Scale (OSE)This paper discusses the use of and validation of the Online Student Engagement scale (OSE) as a measure of student engagement.
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Online Student Engagement Tools and StrategiesThis summary report offers multiple mini articles on strategies for online student engagement and tips for measuring student engagement in your course.