It's important to engage all learners and use interactive simulations and social media to switch up the different ways of participation.
I think it is an excellent course, since it invites you to go a little outside the box as they say, because although students must be responsible, I believe and I am sure that through proper motivation, they can participate and get involved much more.
I have learned that communication needs to start early, and be ongoing for student success.
Engaging online learners is necessary in virtual courses. Planning for all learners is essential. Considering learning modalities will help instructors reach all learners.
I have learned that I need to find my learners where they are and create learning activities that will engage all, not just some of my learners. Some can learn from just written materials, but I need to create different opportunities for different types of learners to be successful.
The need to engage students in different mediums so that you can help the learner where they are in their educational journey. Not everyone can learn at the same pace or using the same materials, so we need to create different opportunities for different types of learners.
Student engagement is essential. Motivational and social engagement are key factors in any classroom environment. Some supportive concepts mentioned include the significance of feedback, student outreach, building a strong rapport, and utilizing strategic opportunities that encourage student engagement.
I learned that it is very important to maintain students' engagement through various methods: activities, study groups, and even games.
This course opened my eyes to the various ways we can engage the online learner. I am particularly intrigued by "content chunking" because I notice many of my adult learners go about their studies in this way. I now realized that engaging the online learner goes beyond the virtual classroom and early engagement increase chances of course success.
This module examines in detail the aspects of social and motivational encouragement. This information helps to understand where improvement is needed.
This module has given me better sight on learning and teaching students social and motivational encouragment. It makes me rethink how I encourage and motivate students and where improvment is needed.
This module has helped me learn more about engagement and motivation in education. It allowed me to review my techniques and identify areas where I'm doing well while also pinpointing areas that need improvement. Additionally, I created a plan to implement the necessary changes to enhance engagement and communication with my students.
I have learned over the last five years that this is the most important aspect of classroom preparation. Without the students attention, the rest can be perfect and useless. Motivation of the student allows the engagement.
Comment on Diego Serrato's post: Hi Diego, Yes, this is the greatest challenge for working with adult students who have families and full time jobs. We do become creative and strategize so we have their attention. This engagement is needed for the success of their learning.
Achieving motivation for interaction is one of the biggest challenges, however, ensuring that those who are motivated do not lose that motivation is crucial to generating a positive impact in the virtual classroom.
It is well known that the COVID pandemic caught us unawares and education systems were forced to implement virtual mechanisms for training. At least in Latin America we have had to leran with "cost-benefit" (including the margin of error and improvisation). These years have been a time fo challenges that this course has allowed me to confirm and orgnize better mentally and in the processes from now on. The application of this content is in impoving the practices of social engagement in my classes, but continue to insist that the administrative teams are better involved with students, going beyond the daily formalities that students must do and that are the only moment of encounter with the institution. For example, invite staff members to some subjects to work with them or design some class activities where the meeting takes place.
Continue to foster a postitive learning enviornment by promoting more social interactions, provide timely and constructive feedback, connect learning to real world experiences and show enthusiam for teaching the subject matter.
Comment on Sherry Jacobs's post: Hi Sherry! I agree with you!
Comment on Sherry Jacobs's post: Hi Sherry! I agree with you!
I have learned from this presentation that students need to feel motivated to want to study and that working in groups can have a good influence on them.
