Learning How to Increase Learner Engagement
41mBeginner2016-08-10
Authors
Karl Kapp
Scholar, Writer, and Expert on Games, Learning, and Technology
Course details
Engaged students become more active learners. Help set learners up for success by teaching in a more interactive and immersive way. In this course, professor and instructional designer Karl Kapp explores teaching strategies that engage learners and make learning stick—whether you're teaching face-to-face or in an online classroom setting. Explore different lesson formats and activities that increase cognitive engagement, knowledge retention, and collaboration. Dr. Kapp explores both time-tested and cutting-edge tools, including index cards and charts and digital tools such as wikis and blogs.
Learning objectives
Understanding the value of engaged learners
Using index cards and flip charts
Role playing
Asking learners to give presentations
Using blogs, wikis, and other collaborative tools
Learning objectives
Understanding the value of engaged learners
Using index cards and flip charts
Role playing
Asking learners to give presentations
Using blogs, wikis, and other collaborative tools
Skills covered
TeachingTraining and EducationLearning
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. Passive vs. Active Learning
- 02 - Why not just lecture
- 03 - The value of engaged students
2. Increasing Engagement Strategies
- 04 - Problem-based learning
- 05 - Use index cards
- 06 - Think-Pair-Share
- 07 - Leverage flip charts
- 08 - Summarizing
- 09 - Role playing
- 10 - Student presentations
- 11 - Content recall activities
- 12 - Simulations
- 13 - Blogs, wikis, and collaborative work
Conclusion
- 14 - Next steps