Dr.
Stephanie A.C. Kuhn, Department of Education and Educational Psychology, Western Connecticut State University
Title
: Active Student Responding to Increase Student Engagement in Online University Course
Abstract
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Data suggest that just over one third of students in post-secondary education settings enrolled in at least one online course (IPEDS, Spring 2018). In an unprecedented situation in the spring 2020 all universities were forced to quickly move courses online after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is unclear how this will influence student enrollment in online courses in the future. Regardless, there is a role for online learning in post-secondary education settings. There are challenges that come with online teaching, one of the primary ones being student engagement. Research has shown that promoting active student responding in course activities increases engagement. This presentation will detail the use of specific methods and technology to incorporate active student responding in online courses. Preliminary data on the effects of an active student responding components in a graduate level program will be presented and discussed.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn about active student responding as it relates to increased student engagement in online asynchronous coursework.
2. Participants will learn about advantages and limitations of one method of imbedding an active student responding component into online synchronous coursework and consider how to overcome those limitations.
3. Participants will learn how one tool can be used to imbed an active student responding component in online asynchronous coursework.