Jennifer Dery
Struggling to keep, or maybe even initially capture, your students’ attention? In all formats, but especially in a fully virtual format, engaging students in our courses can be a challenge. This presentation will share some ideas and strategies from the 2020 Lily Conference plenary sessions to encourage student engagement.
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I WILL WANT TO EXPLORE THIS AFTER TODAY
My approach to student engagement this past three semesters was to email two intro documents a week apart, just before & during the 100% drop & add week, and then to follow up a week or more later with a phone call that lead to an immediate conversation & or to leaving a voice message, & or to one or more personally scheduled sessions by phone or webex during the rest of the semester. Students responded to this approach with appreciation for my outreach and in some cases, as an opportunity for them to feel noticed, encouraged, supported, hopeful.
I knew multitasking was not an effective learning tool but I didn’t realize how distracting it really was for the learner as well as their peers. Very interesting and a must to pass on to the students to increase their awareness.
Thank you Jen! Very informative
Thank you for putting this together! You did a great job!
I think I would like to do this again, synchronously, and with the ability to interact real time with others and the presenter.
Jennifer,
Thanks for this excellent quality highlights on Student Engagement. Lots of “great things” to consider to help our students.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I appreciate you taking the time to do so.
I provide an anticipatory set for he class then have students introduce themselves online and use a brief getting started exercise that is sort of a website scavenger hunt that has students review and report items from the syllabus , schedule and first assignment in a D2L Quiz that supplies answers to questions that are missed. This tends to get interaction going among classmates and makes sure everyone is aware of the course resources.
I appreciate your approach and honesty and learning about you!! I found all of your information to be most helpful. I also try to bring joy and laughter to my meetings and keep them real. The liquid syllabus -mobile friendly was interesting. I need to check into that. More and more Students are using their phones and I find myself using my phone a lot, too. Thank you for this presentation. Have a great semester.
I found it very interesting. I don’t think that everything mentioned will work for my class, but was happy to see that some of my methods were mentioned (initial ice-breakers, surveys, structured content). I have to admit that what I was able to do in my face-to-face, I am not able to implement in my online class. But it gave me some information to think about.
Thank you, Jen.