Getting to Know You: Student-Faculty Interaction and Student Engagement in Online Courses

Linguistic Reflections of Student Engagement in Massive Open Online Courses

While data from Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offers the potential to gain new insights into the ways in which online communities can contribute to student learning, much of the richness of the data trace is still yet to be mined. In particular, very little work has attempted fine-grained content analyses of the student interactions in MOOCs. Survey research indicates the importance of st...

Student engagement in pharmacology courses using online learning tools.

OBJECTIVE To assess factors influencing student engagement with e-tools used as a learning supplement to the standard curriculum in pharmacology courses. DESIGN A suite of 148 e-tools (interactive online teaching materials encompassing the basic mechanisms of action for different drug classes) were designed and implemented across 2 semesters for third-year pharmacy students. ASSESSMENT Stud...

Faculty Engagement to Enhance Student Attainment

Creating Engaging Student to Student Engagement in an Online Class

Online classrooms present a challenge in offering student to student engagement. The traditional mean for this has been discussion threads, however levels of participation and quality of responses are frequent issues. Another issue, is the amount of time on the part of the instructor to review and grade discussion threads. This paper describes and simple and innovative way to use quizzes as pee...

Student Participation Index: Student Assessment in Online Courses

Online courses have been widely used to support teaching and learning in higher education. It is essential to develop methods to properly assess students in online course usages. This paper proposes a student participation index for assessing students in online courses. The index consists of a number of components, such as pages viewed and forum questions read and posted, and associated weights...