Games encourage us to engage with each other (virtual or face / face) and learn concepts in a fun way!  

Online resources are available for almost every subject matter.

For Healthcare Classes... there are Flash Card Design, Scrabble, Hang Man, etc.  

We just need to put in the effort to engage and have fun along with the student in a new way to educate and learn!

Here is a good website:  http://smili.stanford.edu/interactive-learning/activity.html

Jacqueline

Online learning is very good for students that want to learn but can not attend a physical location on certain days at certain times.  Although there is flexability in this learning method there is also accountability where the student needs to turn in work on time.  

How do instructors how students accountable when they state they they have to turn in work late due to severe issues such as severe illness, death in family, etc.  This seems to be the case in many of my classes.

 

JNB  02.19.2016

We all have different ways in which we learn. On-line education works well with every "learning style" if the instructor uses ways to incorporate various ways of learning into the instructional part of the class. Examples of each learning style is important. Students that are visual or audio type learners may benefit from such web links as You Tube or the OIG HEAT clips regarding Fraud, Waste and Abuse.

The weekly Road Map should break down the syllabus into weekly portions. The goals of the class syllabus will be restated each week in the weekly Road Map. Re-messaging in the weekly Road Map will help the student to realize that the Syllabus is the "broader" (ie. Macro) picture and the Road Map is the weekly picture of what must be accomplished (i.e. Micro.)

Add resource web links for students to use in the discussions. The websites add validity to your thought process and gives the student another way to validate what the instructor is trying to get across to the student. Such websites might be career related (i.e AAPC or AHIMA) or geared toward rules and regulations such as CMS. New industry trends can be communicated with web links as well , such as with ICD 10.