When working to maximize student engagement in a online classroom there are five strategies available to use to help guide teachers to creating a memorable and effective classroom. The first is creating a classroom community between peers and teacher, this helps with the next strategy having timely and well throughout feedback to help students improve. A variety of activities also serve to maintain interest while keeping the content fun and exciting to assist students in wanting to learn, leading into the next strategies goals and expectations, without this students don't know what to strive to. Lastly and most importantly to encourage a inner desire to grow simply without this a student has no reason to try and engage with any offered material.
As a instructor, I wish to use these very same strategies in my class. I will use class discussions and breakout groups to help foster social connections with each other, as well as use these very same discussions to notice and offer feed back to any portion of leaning that a student needs extra support on.I would also create a variety of learning options to engage creativity within the course, some may be quizzes to assist me in providing timely feed back but, I hope to create activities that ask for PowerPoints, review games and more to help solidify the learning and engage the desire to learn.
I agree with all of your strategies. The best way to keep students engaged and motivated is to lean into their own interests and keep activities stress-free and fun. The best way I have seen this done is by using gaming apps or game-like activities. Have you found any other ways to make learning fun for students?
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