Strategies to Engage Students in Online Learning
Online learning
or e-learning is gaining pace in India. More and more students as well
as institutions are going online to get into this stream. There are many
benefits for both (Students and Institutions) in online learning process.
The motive of an e-learning
platform is to reach out to more and more students and to retain them for a
good duration of time. To achieve this, they give them the best available
material and other video explanations and all for their benefit. For students, the
best e-learning platforms
bring quality content at their doorstep and they can now learn as per their
interest and needs.
Though it’s in the interest of
both that the system flourish but to maintain the interest of students for good
period of time is not a simple task.
E-learning platforms need to bring more and more features and ways to keep the process of learning, interesting and innovative.
Here is the list of few strategies
to keep engaging students in Online Learning –
·
Innovative content – the content available on internet and on the
various institution’s website are generic and that doesn’t fulfil the needs of
the students and they keep on exploring websites and other sources for content
that is different and innovative so that they can learn in the way they
couldn’t till now. There are many tools available today for making the content
interesting and easy for the holistic learning and development of a student.
Few of the tools are – Tables, Charts, Mind maps, Images and all. The more of
these tools you use in your content the more expressive your content will be
and finally it will attract more and more students/users.
·
Explanatory Video lessons – Video is an essential ingredient of
audio-visual (a-v) learning, the user’s engagement in the video learning is
very high. More and more students find video tutorial easy and interesting and
they keep on searching for better engagement and understanding of the concept.
As said in the previous section, the users like authentic and innovative
content the same goes to video also, the more original your video is (content
vise) and more interesting it is, more chances it has to engage more students.
·
Practice lessons/exercises – for proper understanding of a topic
apart from the content e-learning platforms must have enough material
for practice and doubt clearance method for students. Students attract more
towards the platform which are user friendly and have options for them to build
strong their concepts.
·
Quizzes and games – everyone like to play games. This is the best
entertainment method one has. But many also think of it as a time waste.
Technology has now enabled us to build learning games so that one can learn and
play at the same time. You can easily incorporate them in your learning
platforms do that user engagement with your website increases. Now a days, all
the well-known online
learning platforms for students offer quizzes and interactive
games.
·
Peer to Peer learning – The objective of learning is to clear all
the doubts a student has. Although many students opt e-learning so that they
will be able to clear their doubts many and still find it hard to break ice
with their teacher. But they are comfortable with other students. If an online education sites
can give users a feature of peer to peer learning the student engagement will
increase.
So, these are some of the things online learning platforms
can incorporate to build high user engagement. These definitely are no hard and
fast rule, as there always a scope for improvement through research and
development.
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