Teacher Tip: 5 ways to Engage Students in Online Learning

[@EconWithDrA]

Question of the day: what is your favorite online teaching tip?

[@conornomics5629]

The video has great tips for synchronous online classes! For async, "less is more" is the best tip I have. Plan for students to have to go through the content a couple of times to really get it.

[@EconWithDrA]

@@conornomics5629 Thanks for stopping by! I totally agree with you about asynchronous courses. Students benefit from having access to the content and being able to revisit it.

[@DKAl-vc1rm]

It has to be "Avoiding Powerpoint Security Blanket". I just never felt comfortable using powerpoints for more than 15 minutes for my student when teaching face to face. Always, found ways to jump out of the powerpoint, then come back. With online education I found pre-recorded videos a good way to offload all the powerpoint talk.

[@theatrebattery5500]

Came over here after your comment on our video, and stayed for this great set of tips! This is applicable to professional zoom meetings of all sorts, especially the importance of launching meetings/classes with some vulnerability and intention right at the top.

[@EconWithDrA]

Thank you for stopping by and for your comment.

[@cleonemusician217]

Thank you SO much for this insightful presentation Dr A.

[@EconWithDrA]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching.

[@galinagerasimova2565]

I really like the idea of 60-sec rule. I am going to try it with my students. I see Zoom's chat as destructing sometimes, but this tip might be actually helpful for student-to-students online communication. Thank you!

[@EconWithDrA]

Most welcome. Please update me how it goes

[@DKAl-vc1rm]

9:59 Keep your videos short. Totally agree. One of the mistakes I seen many institutions (at least in Oman) do is that they move what ever lecture slides they and teach the same the set of slides online synchronously. The form of asynchronous they use is to record these lectures (1-2 hours lectures) and put them online. Most student don't have the time, or infrastructure, to watch 2 hours long videos.

[@EconWithDrA]

I see that here in the states too. I always tell educators, “just because you said it does not mean you taught it”

[@lukestein]

Great stuff on the "type in the chat but don't press enter." Hadn't thought of or heard of that, but will definitely try (today!).

[@EconWithDrA]

Would love to hear how it goes.

[@lukestein]

@@EconWithDrA This has been a great technique for me over the last few weeks. I'm regularly combining this with a timer overlay on my camera feed using H2R Graphics. "Let's take a minute… feel free to type in chat, but don't hit enter yet." I hit a button on the stream deck and a minute starts to count down in the corner of my camera feed.

[@EconWithDrA]

Would love to do an episode with you about synchronous video set up. Would you be interested? I want to learn how you do things and share them with my audience.

[@lukestein]

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[@DrEllenMaddin]

Excellent advice for all instructors -- but specifically important for pandemic teaching. Thank you for this video.

[@EconWithDrA]

Thank you for watching!

[@fatimamrabet932]

Great tips. I wish I watch your video once we moved to online teaching. Thank you!

[@EconWithDrA]

Thank you. What do you teach?

[@fathiaabimbola420]

Can it also work for Whatsapp online class?

[@ijeomaomeoga1764]

How do you get your students to show up in an online class?

[@EconWithDrA]

At this point, I haven’t taught online only for a couple of years. But my mindset is the same for all my classes. “Can I clearly articulate what value the student is receiving by attending my class and that they can’t get out of other resources”. Most of the time students don’t show up to class because they don’t see value, and that’s because we don’t articulate the value clearly. We expect them to know it.