Online Learning (things to consider)

Online Learning (things to consider)

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Scientifically Proven Brain Facts You Should Consider When Building Your Course

  • Multimedia tools improve our brain's memory power.
  • Our brains work best at certain times of the day.
  • Game play helps to exercise (and motivate) our mental muscles.
  • Our brain prefers images over text.
  • Engaging students in Canvas.
    • behavioral engagement
    • cognitive engagement
    • emotional engagement
  • Student engagement in online learning isn't just behavioral:
    • reading course material
    • asking questions
    • participating in interactive activities and finishing homework
  • More important behavior is the cognitive performance of learners' intellectual effort and initiative to apply the new knowledge to different situations when selecting and evaluating relevant information and resources.
  • Emotional performance is learners' satisfaction of their achievements, willingness of participating in learning activities and sense of self-worth in peer interactions.

CONSIDER

It's difficult to measure students' efforts in an online course.

Consider students' perception, regulation, and emotional support in the learning process:

  • effort
  • meta-cognitive regulation
  • emotional responses

Students need to be absorbed in online learning:

  • quantity and quality of engagement
  • communication with others
  • learning consciously
  • guidance/help from others, self- management, and self-control

MAKE A GREAT COURSE INTRODUCTION

Introduce yourself

  • Inflect down at the end of your name.
  • stand still.
  • Speak with authority.

Give Your Credentials

  • Elevator speech (I help students master calculus).
  • Tell your students what you have to offer: "What can you do for me?"
  • They need to know who you are and why they will benefit from your teaching.

What’s the Hook?

  • "I'm going to show you how to break down any calculus problem into parts that you can easily solve."
  • You have to get your students to "feel" something.
    • feel more happy, more successful, or more free.
  • Your students should BELIEVE that they want what you're going to give them.
  • You can't tell them WHAT they're going to get until you've told them WHY they would want it.

Introduce Your Agenda

  • The purpose of this step is to show your audience the takeaways for your presentation – the things they get to "take away" and use tomorrow after listening to your presentation.
  • Instead, just give them a moment to read it themselves, and introduce your agenda by summarizing what you'll be doing by mentioning the number of takeaways you'll be giving them, and paraphrasing the goal of your presentation.

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