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Get active! Actively engage students in your (online) course
Student activation & motivation for instructors
Created byDr. Elisabeth Weber
Last updated 1/2024
English
What you'll learn
- After successful completion of this course you can ...
- ... articulate requirements for student activation and motivation in courses and apply these requirements to your own instruction,
- ... plan your courses in such a way that they enhance student activation and motivation,
- ... select and apply appropriate methods for student activation in your courses,
- ... develop settings for sustainable learning that promote student activation and motivation,
- ... enhance the quality of your instruction.
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Course content
6 sections • 32 lectures • 2h 42m total length
Requirements
- There are no specific requirements.
- Ideally, you plan a course or wish to revise an already existing one and wish to put more focus on student activation and motivation.
- The idea is that you really get active and do the various tasks as this will help you profit most from the course.
Description
Do you feel your students are passive and indifferent in class? They don't ask and when you have a question for them, there is either no response or it is just the same few students who talk to you. But most of your students just passively hang in their chairs.
It doesn't have to be this way!
Wouldn't it be awesome if your students actively participated in class? If they thought and worked along, asked questions, exchanged their ideas with others, responded to your questions and -eventually- learned in a better, more motivated and sustainable way?
Who wouldn't want that. But how should that work out - especially in large courses like lectures student activation is impossible, isn't it?
Let me tell you: it IS possible! And not difficult at all.
In this course I show you very simple, yet highly effective methods that basically work in any learning and teaching environment, no matter if a small scale seminar or a large lecture, for in-classroom settings or online instruction. It's easy to activate and motivate your students - once you know how! So, let me show you! I promise there won't be any uber-posh, extra glamorous stuff no-one can really use.
I will not only suggest methods to you but also share didactic knowledge it takes to understand why students are passive in class and which requirements students need to actively work along.
As academically certified didactics expert with many years of extensive teaching experience I show you how this dream of active, motivated students can become YOUR personal teaching reality. No magic, so empty promises.
In various tasks you can transfer the content learned in this course to your own specific teaching situation and use the methods presented in your very next session.
Well, what do you think? Does that sound like an interesting and relevant course for you? If so, welcome! I am excited to be working with you!
# university # instruction # student activation # motivation # methods # participation in class
Who this course is for:
- You'd like to have active and motivated students in your course?
- You wish you knew some super simple, yet highly effective methods for student activation that are independent of group size or type of course?
- You'd like to understand why your students don't ask when things are not clear in class and never respond to your questions and instead just passively hang in their chairs?
- You plan a course or wish to revise an already existing one and would love to include some more student activation?
- You wish you could get some ideas and support to make your courses more lively, active and enriching for everyone?
- Well, then this is just the right course for you! It's a pleasure having you here!