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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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These techniques include human outreach, like employing teams of mentors and advisers who proactively check in on students, as well as automated tools that help keep learners on track. And so the online and hybrid courses these institutions spun up during the pandemic came with little of the scaffolding that experts recommend.

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The Online Classroom: Trust, Explore, Engage

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Many of you reading this article are online teachers and I would like to start by asking two questions: Are you a good online teacher? What are you doing that truly engages your students? For example, when showing a video, use EdPuzzle to ask questions DURING the video to keep them engaged. Want better discussion boards?

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?Can Online Teaching Work at Liberal-Arts Colleges? Study Explores the Pros and Cons

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The findings paint a complicated picture of whether online teaching can work for humanities courses at liberal arts colleges, and how much effort they take to produce. For some students (45 percent of the respondents), the online or hybrid courses were somewhat better or much better than in-person.

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The Online Classroom: Trust, Explore, Engage

Faculty Focus

Many of you reading this article are online teachers and I would like to start by asking two questions: Are you a good online teacher? What are you doing that truly engages your students? For example, when showing a video, use EdPuzzle to ask questions DURING the video to keep them engaged. Want better discussion boards?

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

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Hybrid and HyFlex models, supported by AI-driven platforms like Zoom, allow asynchronous learning, vital for students balancing work and family (Quality Matters, 2022). Hybrid Course Design : AI platforms enable asynchronous lectures, reserving in-person sessions for interaction. The Reading Teacher, 67 (6), 455464.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

Hybrid and HyFlex models, supported by AI-driven platforms like Zoom, allow asynchronous learning, vital for students balancing work and family (Quality Matters, 2022). Hybrid Course Design : AI platforms enable asynchronous lectures, reserving in-person sessions for interaction. The Reading Teacher, 67 (6), 455464.

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Strategies for Teaching Complex Subjects in Large Hybrid Classrooms Across Campus: Bridging Engagement and Equity Across Modalities

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The Flipped Classroom Model To further enhance engagement, we adopted a flipped classroom approach. Instead of dedicating class time solely to lectures, we provided pre-class materials such as videos, readings, or podcasts that covered foundational concepts (Ochs, Gahrmann & Sonderegger, 2024).