Learning by engaging: connecting with our students to keep them active and attentive in online classes

Gribble, Lynn; Wardrop, Janis

doi:10.47408/jldhe.vi22.701

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“…However, effectively monitoring attendance and engagement and incorporating active learning into online delivery represents a key challenge faced during the rapid changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic (Andrews, 2021;Gribble and Wardrop, 2021;Symons, 2021). During online synchronous activities online equivalents to clickers can be used such as Zoom polls or polls based on web browsers.…”

Section: Discussion and Perspectives Attendance In A Purely Online En...mentioning

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Relationships Between Undergraduate Student Performance, Engagement, and Attendance in an Online Environment

Jones

2022

Front. Educ.

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Monitoring student attendance and engagement is common practice during undergraduate courses at university. Attendance data typically show a strong positive relationship with student performance and regular monitoring is an important tool to identify students who may require additional academic provisions, wellbeing support and pastoral care, for example. However, most of the previous studies and our framework for monitoring attendance and engagement is based on traditional on-campus, in-person delivery. Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, our transition to online teaching delivery requires us to re-evaluate what constitutes attendance and engagement in a purely online setting and what are the most accurate ways of monitoring. Here, I show how statistics derived from student interaction with a virtual learning environment, Canvas, can be used as a monitoring tool. I show how basic statistics such as the number and frequency of page views are not adequate and do not correlate with student performance. A more in-depth analysis of video viewing duration, rather than simple page clicks/views is required, and weakly correlates with student performance. Lastly, I provide a discussion of the potential pitfalls and advantages of collecting such data and provide a perspective on some of the associated challenges.

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Section: Discussion and Perspectives Attendance In A Purely Online En...mentioning

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Relationships Between Undergraduate Student Performance, Engagement, and Attendance in an Online Environment

Jones

2022

Front. Educ.

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“…Secondly, the asynchronous aspect of teaching online presented challenges to educators who enjoyed F2F collaboration and interpersonal engagement with their students, being able to be within reach of students, see them interact and engage physically, read their body language, note their facial expressions and act immediately on all these indicators to modify teaching approaches to enhance learning. Connection with students in an online environment is unique and many educators find connecting with online students presents a great challenge ( Gazza, 2017 ; Gribble & Wardrop, 2021 ; Plante & Asselin, 2014 ; Puksa & Janzen, 2020 ). Educators see there is a direct relationship between their own engagement and presence with student engagement and success, and this is most important in the online environment where there is no direct human contact ( Gazza, 2017 ; Smith & Crowe, 2017 ).…”

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“Teaching Through Your Fingertips”: A Descriptive Study to Understand the Experiences and Needs of Online Educators in Postgraduate Nursing Education in Australia

Biedermann

Ahern

2023

SAGE Open Nursing

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Introduction Even before COVID-19, enrolments in online postgraduate nursing and midwifery courses were growing globally. Teaching into planned online courses requires pedagogical considerations unique to the context. Objective The objective of this descriptive mixed methods study was to understand the experiences and needs of Australian online educators who taught into planned online postgraduate nursing or midwifery courses. Methods A 55-item online survey captured the experiences and needs of participants. This paper reports on the analysis of participants’ qualitative responses in this survey, analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. Forty-nine postgraduate educators participated in this study. Results Five core themes were identified: time is precious; redefining the educator role; understanding the pedagogical shift; online and alone; and learning to teach online. Many educators report lacking the skills and confidence to deliver high-quality education to postgraduate students through their fingertips. Conclusion This research highlighted that online educators need support through resources, education, and professional development.

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Learning by engaging: connecting with our students to keep them active and attentive in online classes

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Relationships Between Undergraduate Student Performance, Engagement, and Attendance in an Online Environment

Relationships Between Undergraduate Student Performance, Engagement, and Attendance in an Online Environment

“Teaching Through Your Fingertips”: A Descriptive Study to Understand the Experiences and Needs of Online Educators in Postgraduate Nursing Education in Australia

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