Creatively Engaging Online Students: Models & Activities

How do you make sure your online classroom is “engaged”?

We fondly recall one former professor who was in the habit of firing rubber bands at snoozing students, or sneaking up on them and poking them with a knitting needle.

Aside from the risks those tactics pose to tenure nowadays, they’re also not transferable to the online classroom.

Not that they aren’t needed: Student engagement – or, rather, the lack of it – is a critical problem in distance learning today.

Fortunately, you do have tools at your disposal (albeit not pointy ones) to keep your students interested, involved, engaged, and firmly on the path to successful learning.

One of higher education's technology experts, Curt Bonk, Ph.D., provides a wealth of tips and techniques you can put to work in your online classroom right now.

In this idea-filled 90-minute presentation, you’ll:

• Learn how to address student learning preferences online.
• Discover ways to motivate students in online environments with 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.
• See how to use the “R2D2 model” for thinking about diverse learning needs. 
• 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.

Who will benefit from this seminar:

• 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

You’ll learn from one of higher-ed’s leading technology experts … and most entertaining presenters.  Bonk, Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University, is an author, international speaker and respected authority on distance learning and educational technology. 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.

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