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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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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

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Our solution came about in the form of hybrid courses for students—a mix of asynchronous curriculum and regular, scheduled synchronous sessions. The Utility of Hybrid Courses. For those of you struggling to integrate fully online courses—or fully in-person courses—into your school models, consider this.

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The Online Classroom: Trust, Explore, Engage

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For example, when showing a video, use EdPuzzle to ask questions DURING the video to keep them engaged. AI can also be a source of inspiration, providing engaging examples that spark new ideas and guide lesson development. Its a thought partner that will help you take a step in the right direction for online student engagement.

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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

For example, when showing a video, use EdPuzzle to ask questions DURING the video to keep them engaged. AI can also be a source of inspiration, providing engaging examples that spark new ideas and guide lesson development. Its a thought partner that will help you take a step in the right direction for online student engagement.

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Supporting Student Well-being in Virtual Learning 

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For those entering college from low-income households, a historically underrepresented background, or as a first-generation college student, the statistical odds are stacked against you. Research suggests that by increasing course structure in online and hybrid courses, achievement gaps can be reduced—or even eliminated!

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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.