Saturday, February 9, 2013

Week 3: Ten Ways to Engage Students in an Online Course


1.Syllabus Quiz; why?

To ensure that students understand important course policies such as:

·        Course objectives

·        Attendance

·        Point values of various parts of the course &Grading system

·        Outline of Learning activities

·        To ensure that students understand important course policies such as:

·        Course objectives

·        Attendance

·        Point values of various parts of the course &Grading system

·        Outline of Learning activities

2. Interview Report; why students need to report peers interview for assignment topics?

·        For students to introduce oneself in the virtual classroom

·        To encourage communication and idea exchange

·        To allow students to socialize


3. Feedback Survey ; why ask students about the course after 1/3 way into the course?

·        To check their level of satisfaction and  ways to improve the course

4. Group Project; what are the good characteristics of successful online students’ projects?

·        Everyone participates and equally contributes to a project

·        Regular online team meetings

·        Their individual work has been collaboratively combined

·        Sufficient instructor’s consultation time

5. Use Elluminate LIVE and Wimba Live Classroom Apps where students and Teacher can talk via microphone and/or “see” the live face through web video camera

6. Peer Review/Critiques; ask students to review or critique their colleagues by……

·        Paring up students and ask them to post their work, idea or questions on the discussion board. Students are required to review their partner’s work and share it with the rest of the class.

7. Sharing research Findings;

 
·        let students share what they found by paring them up and assign the pair the same topic so that they can study together, learn from each other’s perspectives


8. Games; Create games using…Study mate…..Apps


9.  Student presentations; students make presentations live via

 
·        Wimba Live Classroom

·        Elluminate Live

·        Adobe Connect

 
10. Guest Speakers; guest speaker can be interviewed via…discussion board and live chat sessions.

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