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Motivating and retaining online students : research-based strategies that work /
Motivating and Retaining Online Students will help instructors increase the motivation of online students and thereby improve the overall retention rates for educational institutions. Based on a study by the authors', the book focuses on the most important issues instructors face, such as cours...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco, CA :
Jossey-Bass,
[2014]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Jossey-Bass guides to online teaching and learning.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Motivating and Retaining Online Students: Research-Based Strategies That Work; Copyright; Content; List of Tables, Exhibits, and Figure; Preface; The Focus of This Book; Who Can Benefit from This Book; Our Beliefs About Learning and Teaching; How This Book Is Organized; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Concerns and Opportunities for Online Student Retention; Evolving Concepts of Presence, Communication, and Interaction; Redefining the Characteristics of the Higher Education Learner; New Ways of Learning; Causes for Increased Enrollment.
- The State of Higher Education and Online LearningConcerns for Online Student Retention; Reasons Online Students Drop Out; Factors for Student Persistence in Online Education; Opportunities for Online Education; New Learner Behaviors and Skills in the 21st Century; Filling the Gap: Strategies for Online Persistence; Chapter 2: Design Strategies for Retaining Online Students; Intentional Design for Online Courses; Design Elements and Strategies to Help Students Stay Motivated Online; Creating the Learning Environment; Planning for the Teaching Process; Predicting Learners' Needs.
- The Impact of Intentional Design for Online Course SuccessDesign Strategies for Retaining Online Students; Chapter 3: Student Strategies for Staying Motivated Online; Pathway and Strategies for Staying Motivated in Online Courses; Self-Awareness; Self-Efficacy; A Purpose for Taking a Course; Means to Achieve Goals; Rewards for Achieving Goals; Explaining Study Findings from a Motivational Perspective; Incorporating Student Strategies into Course Design; Chapter 4: Support Strategies for Helping Online Students Persist; Types of Support Perceived as Important by Students.
- Human Resource SupportInstitutional Support; Self-Care; Support Strategies for Helping Online Students Persist; Instructional Support Strategies; Institutional Support Strategies; Self-Care Strategies; Chapter 5: Pulling the Strategies Together; Established Findings Related to Online Student Retention; Major Contributions from Our Study; New Ways of Thinking About Learning and Teaching; Persistence Model for Online Student Retention; Student-Centered Model; Strategies for Helping Students Persist in an Online Course; Times of Change for Learning in the 21st Century.
- Instructors' Skills for Meeting Students' 21st-Century FluenciesImplications and Conclusions for Learning and Teaching Online; Glossary; References; Appendix 1: Survey Questionnaire for Students; Appendix 2: Survey Questionnaire for Instructors; Index.