Engagement



EngagementIn this section, you will identify the types of interactions you aspire to have in your course, align your engagement activities to your learning outcomes and assessments, and develop a plan for communicating your expectations with your students.What types of instructor-to-student interactions do you think you might use in your course?Your Ideas:Possible Instructor-to-Student Interactions:Weekly Preview of what students are going to learn that week (you could use email, announcements, or video for this type of communication). Weekly Recap of the main points at the end of the week or unit (you could use email, announcements, or video for this type of communication).Strategies for Success, such as how students should interact with the content or how they should study particular concepts.Clarify Confusion on course topics, using email, announcements, or a video lecture. Reminders sent weekly to students of any due dates or work to complete. Words of Encouragement to students recognizing the work they are doing.Create a Discussion Forum where students can post their questions so you don’t have to repeat your answers.Hold Zoom Office Hours on a weekly basis where students can drop in to meet with you.How will you establish a communication pattern with your students (e.g., how often and when will you log on to your LMS, when will you email or post announcements, or hold Zoom office hours)? Your Ideas:What are your expectations for student engagement (e.g., frequency of signing into the LMS to engage with the content, how they should engage with the content, how they should participate in discussions and/or demonstrate respectful dialogue, or other criteria you have identified as important)? Your Ideas: INTEGRATE ITYou can take your answers from Step 2 and 3, add more description, and integrate that information in the Attendance, Participation, and Course Expectations sections of your course syllabus and/or your LMS.What types of student-to-content interactions will you include in your course?Your Ideas:Possible Student-to-Content Interactions:Varying Course Content by providing content in different formats like text, video, audio, images.Creating Engaging Videos about key concepts that integrate some sort of engagement activity that asks them to do something with the information they just learned in the video.Ask Students to Create Content by finding real-world examples that reflect the content and then have them create a video, post in a discussion forum, or post in social media using a hashtag for your course to share with the rest of the class.What ways can you encourage student-to-student interactions in your course?Your Ideas: Possible Student-to-Student Interactions:Create Small Groups for discussion or Zoom breakout rooms, in which students will work together on a task, a scenario-based problem, or developing a response to a thought-provoking discussion prompt.Get Students Collaborating on a shared document, project, or annotating a text.Vary How Students Interact when responding to a prompt or an activity. Maybe they write a response, record a video, or record an audio response, which allows them to add a little humanity into their interactions. ................
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