Student Engagement in the Online Learning - What Works and Why
We know you like your students the most. We know you are often finding ways to create for student engagement in the online learning environment. After all, with student engagement and nurturing comes institutional excellence and success.
Such being their stance, how do you engage your students during their online courses? How do you foster a sense of community, allowing them to communicate and collaborate effectively?
The blog is retrospective in tone and has 10 questions that let you think about the importance of maintaining student engagement in the online learning environment. We hope you find this useful.
How to create student engagement in the online learning environment?
These 10 different questions have answers as to how higher education institutions can make online learning more engaging. Read on.
- Keep students focused
- Allow students to explore
- Engage them from anywhere
- Offer a mobile app
- Make students feel confident and comfortable
- Create a sense of community
- Develop interactions online
- Keep track of students
- Increase feedback about the courses/programs/lessons
- Make communication easier
- Get students’ attention
1.Do you keep students focused?
It’s an era of online education today. Do you have a learning management system in place that has learning tools to keep students focused? At Creatrix we deploy a range of technological tools to enable interaction between the facilitator and students.
The LMS has activity walls, chats, messages, online discussions, polls, quizzes, surveys, which are crucial to engaging students.
Students can experiment with a range of other learning opportunities with instant messaging, information sharing, clarification through Q&A, and take part in ad-hoc meetings and polling.
The discussion forum is the best of all, where students let out their queries and concerns regarding a topic and get them clarified with the facilitators.
2.Do you let students explore?
When the students are given a chance to explore, their interactivity factor grows. By providing links to browse additional information and providing hyperlinks to a related topic, students get to learn beyond their textbooks.
Embedding visually appealing videos can advance the learning experience.
Creatrix Campus has all the above features in its LMS, which engages the students and persuades them to keep coming back for knowledge.
3.Do you allow them to engage from anywhere?
An online learning environment that allows students to connect from anywhere is sure to keep students engaged.
Creatrix allows students to join in collaborative virtual sessions right from their mobile devices and enjoy web conferencing, seminars, casual collaboration, group meetings, sub-chats, or group chats.
4.Do you offer a mobile app?
It a more connected world today, and students demand a mobile app to meddle with their everyday learning. Creatrix Online Learning Management System gives students to team up on live sessions via mobile devices and tablets, for on-the-go learning.
They get to view their visual session content and communicate via text chat and audio, submit assignments, view grades & course materials, and interact in many different ways, replicating a classroom session.
5.Do you make students feel confident and comfortable?
Giving students the technology in hand is not enough. They need a technology that they are confident to use and something that’s user-friendly.
Creatrix allows students to share contents, resources, activities and facilitates teamwork, and gives multiple self-learning opportunities.
6.Do you create a sense of community?
This could be challenging to achieve but crucial to obtain student engagement. Creatrix has tools to assist in collaborative learning among peers and faculty. Students get to involve in diverse learning activities by encouraging participation in in-class activities and self-learning.
With these tools, students take the lead in their learning in their own ways.
7.What about developing interactions online?
Build a community and better relationships by offering students and learners a collaborative space to learn and support each other with in-class activities and self-learning.
Creatrix allows foster communication and to keep students on track there are options to post links, tips, hints, and reminders.
8.Do you keep track of students?
Creatrix creates allows faculty to set predefined online assessments and quizzes with threshold values to track student progress to the next level. There are options to slice & dice the data with the real-time learning analytics platform, so you know what exactly your students achieve.
The intuitively designed personalized dashboards have a proven ability to display real-time status bar reports displaying current, past, and future course progresses, along with the tasks due.
9.Do you try to increase feedback about the courses/programs and about the lessons taught?
Receiving student feedback on time not only helps to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the courses/programs/instruction but also drives student engagement.
When learners are given an immediate opportunity to evaluate their lessons, lecture, they get greater satisfaction.
10.Do you try to make communication easier?
Fully branded to your institution’s colors. Provide a safe and secure social network so your staff, students, and learners can communicate one to one or in groups, all in real-time. No need to share personal data to connect with others, unlike other messaging apps.
What do we offer at Creatrix Campus?
Creatrix suite of student lifecycle products including LMS, SIS is designed to promote student engagement and student success. We know retaining students is your institutional goal. We help you achieve it with our tools and solution to meet the ever-evolving needs in the world of education.
Creatrix modules are secure and standardized for safe communication among different stakeholders. Its users can collaborate, communicate in real-time, under a well-monitored and measured environment.
Contact us today to know more about our student-centric products.
