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Fostering Student Interaction in Online Learning
Online and Blended Learning, Curriculum Strategies, Classroom Management | K-12
As a teacher, you know that rich learning experiences require interaction. However, fostering meaningful interactions among students can be challenging when you introduce digital elements to your traditional classroom or move learning completely online. Online learning elements need not be isolating though. The right teaching practices will help students enjoy rich interactions using digital learning tools.
In this course, you’ll examine how to effectively map out, design, and leverage a range of techniques to get your students interacting online. You’ll explore the different types of barriers to engagement (social, administrative, and motivational) and develop a plan to overcome these barriers using online learning tools. Finally, you’ll learn how to design lessons that incorporate dynamic online discussions and activities that will keep your students engaged all year long.
Using the best practices from this course, you will be able to increase student-to-student engagement whether they learn partially or completely online.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Use the social–emotional learning posters to teach social–emotional learning explicitly Strategies for developing and facilitating online engagement opportunities for students
- Tools for developing engaging lessons and activities for students
- Ways to provide regular and consistent online engagement opportunities between students
- Procedures for administering whole- and small-group discussions to increase student engagement
- Social, administrative, and motivational techniques for eliminating barriers to student engagement
- Approaches for facilitating student-led groups that build community and collaboration
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Compose collaborative activities, group discussions, and other forms of student-to-student interaction.
- Evaluate methods and strategies for designing effective collaborative learning to establish positive relationships between students.
- Adapt their online classroom to include more opportunities for engagement between students on a regular basis.
- Devise a plan for incorporating social and motivational practices that will increase student-to-student engagement.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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