Strategies for Teaching Online Higher Education Courses With an Eye Towards Retention

2021 ◽  
pp. 371-389
Author(s):  
Annette Baron ◽  
Kelly McNeal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy ◽  
Multimedia Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Online Higher Education ◽  
Education Courses ◽  
Relevant Pedagogy

Online courses and programs have increased in enrollment across diverse demographics due to their accessibility and flexibility. Faculty roles currently include a commitment to meeting the learning needs of a diverse online classroom in order to positively impact student outcomes and retention. Engagement and retention are fostered when online communities support culturally relevant pedagogy that includes multimedia learning and assessment, choice, and interactive, guided dialoguing where students can express their personal cultural discourse and integrate their learning with their own cultural stance.

Strategies for Teaching Online Higher Education Courses With an Eye Towards Retention

2019 ◽  
pp. 280-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Baron ◽  
Kelly McNeal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy ◽  
Multimedia Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Online Higher Education ◽  
Education Courses ◽  
Relevant Pedagogy

Online courses and programs have increased in enrollment across diverse demographics due to their accessibility and flexibility. Faculty roles currently include a commitment to meeting the learning needs of a diverse online classroom in order to positively impact student outcomes and retention. Engagement and retention are fostered when online communities support culturally relevant pedagogy that includes multimedia learning and assessment, choice, and interactive, guided dialoguing where students can express their personal cultural discourse and integrate their learning with their own cultural stance.

Teaching for Diversity Online

2021 ◽  
pp. 987-1005
Author(s):  
Johanna M. Tigert ◽  
Argyro Aloupis Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Diverse Classrooms ◽  
Relevant Pedagogy

Existing gaps in teacher education programs impact programs' ability to provide teachers with effective teaching practices for use in diverse classrooms. Higher education institutions attempting to address culturally relevant pedagogy through online courses struggle to create meaningful learning opportunities for students especially when they do not have opportunities to work with diverse populations outside of class. This chapter discusses the challenges a higher education faculty member and her doctoral assistant faced when teaching an accelerated 10-week online course titled Educating Diverse Populations. The asynchronous nature of the online course and the optionality of the online group chats disrupted the process of class dialogue and interactions normally found in traditional face-to-face courses. However, reflecting on a variety of autobiographical resources and participating in weekly discussion posts assisted students to better incorporate culturally relevant pedagogy into their teaching practices.

Teaching for Diversity Online

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Johanna M. Tigert ◽  
Argyro Aloupis Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Diverse Classrooms ◽  
Relevant Pedagogy

Existing gaps in teacher education programs impact programs' ability to provide teachers with effective teaching practices for use in diverse classrooms. Higher education institutions attempting to address culturally relevant pedagogy through online courses struggle to create meaningful learning opportunities for students especially when they do not have opportunities to work with diverse populations outside of class. This chapter discusses the challenges a higher education faculty member and her doctoral assistant faced when teaching an accelerated 10-week online course titled Educating Diverse Populations. The asynchronous nature of the online course and the optionality of the online group chats disrupted the process of class dialogue and interactions normally found in traditional face-to-face courses. However, reflecting on a variety of autobiographical resources and participating in weekly discussion posts assisted students to better incorporate culturally relevant pedagogy into their teaching practices.

Differentiating Instruction for Adult Learners in an Online Environment

2014 ◽  
pp. 1190-1207
Author(s):  
Dixie Massey
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Differentiating Instruction ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Online Teacher Education ◽  
Online Teacher ◽  
Education Courses

Teacher education courses offered online are becoming increasingly common. Unfortunately, few instructors of online teacher education courses have specific preparation for teaching adult learners or in teaching online courses, resulting in faltering attempts to transfer traditional methodology such as lectures to online platforms. This chapter considers the background of distance education and examines relevant literature on adult learners. Differentiated instruction is proffered as a means of meeting the needs of adult learners in online teacher education courses. Specific examples of differentiating content, process, and product are suggested.

Video-Based Discussion

2019 ◽  
pp. 128-153
Author(s):  
Leila Mahmoudi ◽  
Susie Gronseth
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Online Higher Education ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Education Courses ◽  
Video Format

Video-based discussion is an emerging technology that can be used in online higher education courses as part of introduction, debate, personal exploration, and reflection activities. The video format bridges the distance gap in course conversations and offers benefits of providing contextual details, emotion, and individual personality while also enabling asynchronous flexibility. This chapter provides an overview of research in this area and describes an exploratory case study in which video-based discussion was used as part of an online graduate course. Data gathered included video postings and follow-up survey responses. Design guidelines and strategy recommendations are offered for planning and implementing video-based discussion activities in online higher education courses.

Engage Online Learners

2018 ◽  
pp. 96-118
Author(s):  
Sang Chan ◽  
Devshikha Bose
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Flow Theory ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Student Instructor

Online learning will continue to be one of the popular modes of instruction offered by higher education institutions to accommodate different learning needs. Student engagement is critical to the success of online learning. Students should be engaged cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally. This chapter discusses design considerations for online courses to promote student-instructor, student-student, and student-content interactions to engage students cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally. The chapter also discusses the application of flow theory, specifically, in the design of instruction to engage students during their interaction with course content.

The Pivotal Role of Faculty in Online Student Engagement and Retention

2016 ◽  
pp. 65-87
Author(s):  
Judi Simmons Estes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Online Faculty ◽  
Faculty Professional Development ◽  
Online Student ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Teaching Culture

The premise of this chapter is that higher education online faculty have a pivotal role in student retention; faculty participation is key to student engagement and engaged students tend to complete courses in which they are enrolled. However, frequently faculty members are unaware of the impact their active participation and visibility has on student engagement and retention. In addition, online courses are an important source of revenue for many institutions of higher education and attrition results in loss of revenue. Given that faculty have a pivotal role in retention, institutions of higher education can benefit fiscally from guiding and supporting online faculty in strategies of student engagement and retention. Faculty support is needed during the process of change inherent in faculty adapting to teaching online, through providing on-going faculty professional development and by creating a teaching culture inclusive of informal scholarly investigations related to instructional effectiveness in online course delivery.

Online Higher Education: Faculty Satisfaction and Its Antecedents

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 509-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa T. Stickney ◽  
Regina F. Bento ◽  
Anil Aggarwal ◽  
Veena Adlakha
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Faculty Satisfaction ◽  
Education Faculty ◽  
Higher Education Faculty ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Online Higher Education ◽  
Learning Programs

The nature and antecedents of faculty satisfaction in online higher education have not received much scholarly attention yet, despite the growing literature that indicates the relevance of faculty satisfaction for outcomes such as the success of e-learning programs, student learning, and student satisfaction. This exploratory study surveyed 171 faculty members from multiple institutions of higher education to learn about their experiences teaching online and to examine factors that might affect their satisfaction. Our study finds that higher education faculty who teach online are generally satisfied, and that satisfaction is more likely if there is appropriate training, and if teaching online allows for flexibility in their schedules. Although a weaker relationship, results also suggest that faculty are more satisfied teaching online when institutional support and organizational policies uphold online teaching efforts. Contrary to our expectations, however, our findings show that faculty who are more satisfied with support for technical elements of the online teaching environment, are less satisfied teaching online. Implications for research and practice are discerned through both the presence and absence of support for three sets of hypotheses, regarding faculty, institutional and technical factors.

Building Empathy in Online Courses

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Education Faculty ◽  
Higher Education Faculty ◽  
Online Programs ◽  
Online Higher Education

This research study examined the empathetic practices of effective higher education faculty from seven universities that offer online programs. Using a phenomenological approach with a purposeful sample of fourteen faculty interviews identified eight common themes of practice that faculty employ to promote empathy in the online higher education arena.

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