Active Learning is focused on creating student engagement and interactivity. Active Learning is most successful when the institution has developed multiple systems to support its efforts to engage students. This presentation will provide practical information at an institutional level to offer students the greatest chance of success in an online environment.
Active Learning is focused on creating student engagement and interactivity. Active Learning is most successful when the institution has developed multiple systems to support its efforts to engage students. This presentation will provide practical information at an institutional level to offer students the greatest chance of success in an online environment.
Active Learning activities do not, in themselves, create motivated, engaged, and successful students. Unless the institutional infrastructure itself is set up for interaction, the LMS is administrated and set up in such a way to give faculty and students appropriate options for course delivery and learning object creation, the faculty have an understanding of their roles in the classroom (COI model), the students have a reasonable level of readiness, the course development is structurally sound and inviting, the course content is presented in such a way that it is intriguing and invites curiosity, the active learning exercises will not function in the desired way. Active Learning done well is a tool for student engagement, and thus retention, and done poorly is a frustration for students and faculty alike and results in higher attrition rates. This presentation will give a systems perspective of Active Learning in the online context, and will provide information for online administrators that will be helpful in retaining online students, and reducing instructor frustration and time online.