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Higher education educators play a pivotal role in supporting students' emotional engagement with online course content. 
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Video lectures may have worked as a stop-gap measure in the emergency move to online learning, but they just don't cut it for the long term. Here are nine ways to bring distance education courses to the next level.
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What keeps students motivated to learn? Relevance, connections, and their teachers' emotional investment, among just a few criteria. Via Grant Montgomery
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Less than 10 percent of MOOC students, on average, complete a course. That's the conclusion of Katy Jordan of Open University, who published her analysis, pul Via Nik Peachey, Peter Mellow
MuuMuuKau's curator insight,
April 7, 2013 9:49 PM
Some main points:
"Less than 10 percent of MOOC students, on average, complete a course. That’s the conclusion of Katy Jordan of Open University"
"But with no negative academic consequences from dropping out, that information is less about the effectiveness of the courses themselves, and more about the reasons people might be enrolling, she said." 
ManufacturingStories's comment,
April 8, 2013 8:33 PM
Pat, thanks for sharing those first hand experiences. Very valuable insights!
Dawne Tortorella's curator insight,
April 10, 2013 8:02 PM
This blog post does discuss some reasons why students enroll in MOOCs, but doesn't really talk much about why they drop out.
One big reason - FRUSTRATION. When a learner gets stuck and can't get individualized meaningful feedback, it creates a failed learning experience. I think we discount how important those personal encounters are in helping learners.
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Teaching online but you don't want to be on camera? You have several off-camera options for teaching online. Check out the whole series! New videos posted every week.
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Several years ago, when it first became clear that online education was becoming more prevalent, questions were asked about the format of educational content. At the time, in the early years of online education, we witnessed teachers taking content that had been traditionally delivered, and pushing it across into the online environment. This practice quickly became known as 'shovelware' because teachers were ultimately shovelling their content across to the online platform. Quantity was more important than quality, because a rapid population of new digital spaces was deemed to be expedient - the pedagogy could wait.
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Learning Futures's insight:
Some nice techy icebreakers that could be incorporated as both online activities for students as well as in face to face classes.
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KF: This edition (006) looks at "student engagement" - 5 minutes of video that might just introduce a few new ideas about getting students to engage. Via Kim Flintoff
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