The document provides 5 ways to engage students: 1) Enliven lecture materials with videos and stories, 2) Encourage students to respond to lectures and discussions using multimedia platforms, 3) Use discussion forums that allow video and audio responses, 4) Assign multimedia projects where students create videos, and 5) Hold live virtual events for students to participate in real-time activities and presentations. The goal is to pique students' interest and motivate learning through interactive and multimedia experiences.
1. 5 Ways to Engage Students
K.D. Borcoman
Coastline Community College
California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Alaska
2. What is Student Engagement?
• In education, student engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity,
interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or
being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and
progress in their education.
• The Glossary of Education Reform
3. How Do You Do It?
• Enliven lecture and presentation materials: video clips,
cartoons, stories
• Encourage students to utilize YouTube and other
applications and platforms to respond to lectures and
discussions
• Extra credit works!
5. Why Use Video?
• Video creates an emotional connection with users
through story.
• Video is a valuable method for demonstrations.
• Video helps model soft skills.
• Video breaks up content and adds interest.
6. The Four E’s of Effective Learning:
A Useful Heuristic for Teaching
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7. Engaging Interest
• Learning begins with focused attention
• We can capture and hold student attention
through use of:
• Personal vignettes
• Real-life examples
• Interactive exercises
• Lecture starters that pique interest, such as
movie clips
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8. Mastery Quizzing Study
• What is Mastery Quizzing?
• pre-post quizzes during the semester of specific
concepts discussed during class
• Students have two chances to get the right answer
and earn credit toward final grade—at the very
beginning of class and at the end
• Mastery quizzing provides incentives for
attendance, punctuality, and attention
9. The Brain Loves a Puzzle
Puzzles Challenge the Mind to Think
Pose puzzling questions at the beginning of class:
10. The Brain Loves a Puzzle
Puzzles Challenge the Mind to Think
Video creates an emotional connection with users through story. A video that motivates and has a story is powerful in engaging learners, especially if a behavioral change is needed. Learners relate to a human character and are more likely to remember the educational concept through the use of a story.
Video is a valuable method for demonstrations. Designers who are tasked with teaching a procedure with specific steps will find video is an effective tool. Video is useful for processes that are more easily learned through a visual demonstration rather than a narrative explanation.
Video helps model soft skills. Video is especially useful for teaching behaviors and modeling responses. Courses for professional development, human resources, interviewing, and communications are good examples where actors in the video model appropriate behaviors through language, gestures, responses, body language, and voice inflections.
Video breaks up content and adds interest. Using short segments of video helps break up content and hold the learners’ interest. Too much of any one type of media is monotonous for learners. A small piece of video can be used to break up text, introduce sections, and provide instruction
