Engaging Learners in an Online Course: Success Factors

1. Engaging Learners in an Online Course: Success Factors Zoraini Wati Abas, EdD Director, Center for Learning, Teaching and Curriculum Development PuteraSampoerna Foundation University Project Jakarta, INDONESIA zoraini@gmail.com

2. Student Engagement How do we know that students are engaged in their course? ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

3. Student Engagement Is it important? ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

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5. Student Engagement ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh Literature Review

6. Appleton, Christenson and Furlong (2008) explains that engagement has two or three components such as positive conduct, effort and participation. • Chen, Gonyea and Kuh (2008) defines engagement as the degree to which learners are involved with their educational activities and that engagement is positively linked to desired outcomes, high grades, student satisfaction, and perseverance. Student Engagement What does it mean? ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

7. Providing a learning-centered approach (Hunt & Chalmers, 2012) • The facilitator needs to provide effective facilitation of learning through new or innovative ways. • Social constructivist approach works best – collaboration between learners in a learning environment. Use of Web 2.0 tools Student Engagement What does it mean? ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

8. Beer, Clark & Jones (2010). Student engagement is linked to undergraduate academic achievement, student attribution, student retention, student motivation and institutional success. • Trowler (2010), “when learners are engaged…they are shaping and leading their own learning and education.” Student Engagement Why is it important? ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

9. Kuh (2003). “Student engagement holds the magic wand making it possible for students to succeed and develop their potential.” • Duffy, Korkmas, Dennis, et al (2005), “students who are more engaged learn more” Student Engagement Why is it important? ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

10. Ruey (2010), “when learners feel involved and engaged in the course, they perform well and the desired learning objectives are achieved. • Coates (2005), “student engagement is directly or indirectly related to improvement in student learning.” Student Engagement Why is it important? ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

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12. Benefits • Greater sense of ownership over their learning • Increased motivation • Improved self-esteem • Greater achievement • Improved relationship with peers and educators • Increased self-efficacy ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

13. Trends Welcome to higher education circa 2012, where on many campuses, the stale, passive lecture model is being replaced by a more dynamic way of teaching and learning—one in which students and instructorscollaboratein a give-and-take fashion to“make meaning together,” - Tony O’Driscoll, a professor of business administration at Duke. Source: http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/how-collaborative-learning-is-transforming-higher-education/ ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

14. Student Engagement ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh Course Design Student Feedback (Impact) Framework

15. Methodology Case Study of a 100 pct Online Postgraduate Course • Course Design • Environment to support social constructivist learning • Activities to support student engagement • Impact on student engagement • Student feedback • What it means to be engaged • Indicators of student engagement ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

16. How do we engage students in an online course? ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

17. HMID 6303 • http://hmid6303.ning.com HMEF 5083 • http://hmef5083.ning.com Ningas a Collaborative Learning Platform ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

18. Student Engagement using Web 2.0 Tools (Social Media) ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

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22. Framework for Student Engagement Relationship between Success Factors ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

23. Community of Inquiry (COI) Model of Engagement Garrison, Anderson & Archer (2000) ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

24. Findings and Discussions ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh Views of being engaged in learning Indicators of student engagement

25. Questions to obtain students’ feedback • What does “to be engaged in learning” mean? • What are three factors that will encourage or show evidence that the learners are engaged? ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

26. “To be engaged in learning means to be self motivated to learn.” • “Learning engagement refers to a situation where the instructor encourages learners to take an active role in their own learning by giving them practical tasks that will promote information processing and understanding of concepts.” • “I think that this means for the learner to be actively involved in all learning activities through interacting with instructor, peers, web, learning material.” • “It also means that the tasks must be able to maintain the students interests and so must include tasks designed to challenge the student’s problem solving abilities, reasoning, evaluation skills and other cognitive abilities.” • “Learning engagement involves learners in authentic tasks to involve problems solving.” Views of being “engaged in learning” ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

27. self-motivation • encouragement from the instructor • active role/involvement in learning • practical tasks, helping students to learn, • involvement with instructor, peers, Web and learning materials, authentic and meaningful tasks to maintain student interest where student’s problem solving abilities, reasoning, evaluation skills and other cognitive abilities are suitable challenging. Emerging themes – student engagement ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

28. The learner interacts with the content and discovers concepts and principles to apply • The learner takes responsibility for learning and collaborates with other learners • Actively participating and enthusiastic in the lesson discussions, and posts, that is students respond in a timely manner • Completing the assignments • Submitting assignments on time • Completing the course online • Obtaining good grades for the course • Motivating others in class • Getting involved in class discussions • Doing self-learning where needed in order to understand the subject matter even more Indicators (evidence) of Student Engagement ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

29. Factors to foster student engagement ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

30. Supporting Social Constructivist Learning ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

31. Engaging Students in Forums (Applying the COI Model for Student Engagement) ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

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34. Creating a learner-friendly environment ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

35. Providing relevant & meaningful learning opportunities ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

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38. Authentic Learning Problem-based Learning Project-Based Learning Collaborative Learning Borderless Learning Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

39. Summary & Conclusion ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

40. Despite very few learners, they were actively engaged during course, the online discussions with the facilitator and peers, as well as involved with the learning tasks and the course assignments. • All learners submitted their assignments and completed the course successfully. • Factors supporting student engagement • COI engagement model for online discussions, • Learner-friendly online environment • Relevant and meaningful learning materials and activities What can we conclude? Design of an online learning environment via a Web 2.0 platform that supports social constructivist learning which in turn provides a learning-centered approach ZWAbas-eLI2013-Riyadh

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