Building relationships and engaging online students has been a struggle for teachers and professors. This hands-on workshop shares several simple, video-based tools that allow online educators to quickly build meaningful relationships with their online students and increase engagement levels. Participants will learn to use and practice each during the session
Online education is rapidly increasing in popularity across the globe. Instructors and professors struggle to engage with and build meaningful relationships with these students in the same manner as the ground student. Without this critical component in place, online students report a lack of interest, and thus, lower quality of work produced and less overall satisfaction. There are a host of video-based technology tools and strategies that may be used by the online instructor to build meaningful relationships with students and increase the engagement and satisfaction levels. This presentation will share multiple approaches using video-based tools to manage the online classroom. These tactics reach out to the online student, build these all-important relationships, and create a greater sense of satisfaction and higher level of work produced by the online student. This is meant to a practical presetation where participants are able to bring their laptops and test out some or all of these tools. Participants will leave having learned about each tool as well as taken time to set up and practice each in this hands-on presentation.