Engaging Students with Synchronous Methods in Online Courses

To thrive in the fast-changing, highly-competitive niche of online education, institutions eagerly explore new learning tools.

Synchronous learning – live and interactive chat – is one approach that has been shown to engage students and enhance learning.

There are a number of different applications designed to provide a synchronous learning environment.

In this 90-minute seminar on CD, Mike Scheuermann, Ph.D., provides a thorough handbook for incorporating synchronous elements into online course design–and how real-time chat can take online learning effectiveness to the next level.

From any perspective, synchronous learning has notable benefits:

• Forward-thinking administrators recognize online courses as fertile ground for developing a competitive advantage. Those schools offering quality, leading-edge technology and added-value for students–such as synchronous learning–will shine in a growing marketplace.
• Educators grapple with familiar challenges, made even more complex by a modern learning environment. Teachers need online methods that create a connection, keep students engaged in learning, and provide valuable new ways to assess student progress.
• Students bring expectations with them to class. Their ideals for how online interaction will take place are often based on the fresh, new communications technology that they employ in their personal lives.

Learn how to engage students better:

• Decide whether synchronous online course elements fit your pedagogical constructs.
• Build synchronous elements into your online course.
• Conduct sessions in real time with your students.
• Solicit student feedback on the value of synchronous elements–to gain from their perspectives.
• Move forward in using synchronous elements at the next level (for example, as a required and graded online course activity).
• Map out a set of “Next Steps” that make sense to you and your unique situation.
• Take home checklists and worksheets, additional resources and a valuable “Next Steps” guideline.

Who will benefit from this seminar?

• Instructional Designers
• Managers/Directors/Assistant Directors of Online Learning
• Directors of Faculty Support or Development
• Program Managers
• Associate/Vice Provosts for Online Learning
• Associate/Assistant Deans

Mike E. Scheuermann holds a Ph.D. in Education from Drexel University. His areas of interest include online learning and nontraditional students. In this seminar, he shares his expertise about synchronous course elements, based on years of experience, and input from students as well as other faculty members.

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