TOL Template - Keeping Online Students Motivated

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Template: Keeping Online StudentsMotivated

Teaching Online Module 3, Session 1: Monitoring online student activity

and engagement

Use this template to guide you through various considerations for

monitoring your online students engagement with your course. It will also

guide you through planning strategies for keeping your students

motivated.

Download and save this template for your own reference.

How would you define attendance in an online learning environment?

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This resource was created by University College Falmouth and released as an open educational resource forUniversity College Falmouth for the Learn to Teach Online course. The free Learn to Teach Online course isfunded by University College Falmouth's Learning and Teaching Enhancement Programme. 2012 UniversityCollege Falmouth

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The links between class attendance in a face-to-face setting andperformance are well established. Do you think there are links betweenattendance in an online learning environment and performance? Whatare they?

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Will attendance in the online learning environment form part of astudents final assessment? How you communicate this to yourstudents? How will you explain the importance of attendance to yourstudents?

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How will you monitor student attendance, especially in an asynchronousonline course? Will you have an administrative process set up for this and what will it be? Will you use any tools to facilitate this? How will youmanage your time?

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How will you address students non-attendance? What support will begiven to students, if applicable?

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Without visual face-to-face cues to go on, what online behaviours will youlook out for to spot unmotivated or disengaged students?

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How will you motivated unmotivated or disengaged students on youronline course?

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How will you demonstrate your own interest and enthusiasm?

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Some students may enrol in an online course because they feel it will beeasier - and require less of their time. How will your address studentswho become disengaged through the realisation that online study is asrigorous as campus-based study?

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Will you provide a mix of learning activities (quizzes, activities, writing,games, role play, etc) to sustain students motivation? What types oflearning activities will you use?

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Will you encourage students to motivate each other? Will you encouragethem to create their own online student community? How will you dothis?

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Will your learning environment contain a rich mix of content (text, audio,video, images, multimedia, etc)? What types of content will it have?

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Students feel more motivated to put effort into a course when there areexplicit course and activity goals. If the course goals are explicitly laidout, students can more accurately judge if they are worthwhile. How willyou do this?

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Tutor communication is another important means of sustaining student

motivation in an online context. What is your strategy for communicatingwith your students? Your tone of voice?

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How and when will you clearly communicate learning expectations toyour students?

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