How to make Online Learning more fun and engaging for your Students

In recent years, the field of education has witnessed a rapid shift towards the use of e-learning and educational technology. Especially since the coronavirus pandemic, when schools and college campuses were shut down, locking millions of students and teachers across the entire nation, out of the classroom, traditional offline classrooms have almost been rendered obsolete. On the other hand, the use of mobile teacher app as a truly viable substitute for traditional classrooms has grown considerably. After all, online classes provide numerous advantages such as the flexibility to teach and learn from any location at any time, personalized learning, accessibility, improved communication, and likewise. Some good online teaching platforms further simplify the role of a teacher by providing features such as digital whiteboards, online teaching through mobile, automated attendance, seamless connectivity in low data mode, an automated fee collection system, and likewise.

However, teachers who are habitual of teaching in offline classrooms and are new at teaching in an online class may experience a few hiccups while getting to know their way around. More than anything, the role of a teacher in a classroom, be it an offline class or online, is to keep the students engaged and interested in learning. If the students are enjoying their learning, it means you are on the right track. Here are a few tips which will enable you in making the online learning experience for your students, fun and engaging.

Pleasing Online Presence-

While teaching in an online class, you must ensure that not only do you look presentable, but your background location and workspace look presentable as well. Especially, if you are teaching via a webcam, your face is visible to the students and it would behoove you to appear interested and engaged in your students’ opinions and the teaching process yourself. Moreover, you should try to ensure that the quality of video and audio in your classroom is good. All these little things, when done right will leave a relatively large and positive impact on student engagement in your online classroom.

Effective Use of Technology-

The availability of a large number of online teaching apps on the internet puts a variety of really innovative learning tools at your fingertips. It provides you the opportunity to explore and choose from among literally dozens, if not hundreds of online teaching tools. Your goal should be to make judicious use of this opportunity by exploring various options and choosing platforms that provide tools such as whiteboards, text editors, pointers, and likewise. Equipped with the power of technology created solely for the purpose of simplifying and improving the teaching and learning experience of users, you are bound to succeed in enhancing student engagement and student academic achievement in the classroom.

Personalized Attention-

As a teacher, you must get to know your students at a personal level. Finding out the things which inspire and excite them is a good place to start while trying to understand their psyche and the things which can be done to make learning fun and exciting for them. Don’t hesitate in trying out different things before figuring out what works best for your students.

Gamification of Learning-

Gamification is an emerging field of teaching which involves the use of elements of the game such as organizing students into teams, making them compete, keeping scores, rewarding top performers, and likewise. Humans are by nature, competitive and students will definitely respond positively to the integration of gamification in the classroom. This will help in enhancing student engagement, teamwork, competency, and sportsman spirit in the students.

Interactive Classroom-

The moments of quiet reflections though have their place in traditional offline classrooms but aren’t as effective in maintaining the flow of the class in a virtual environment. Long periods of silence in an online class can easily lead students towards getting distracted and drift away. Keeping the class interactive is key here. As a teacher, you can achieve this by planning classroom activities that expect a continuous response from your students either by typing, clicking, or speaking. A great way is to ask a lot of questions and consistently monitor the level of interactivity in the classroom.

Student engagement with the study material is the most critical aspect of learning which plays a key part in enhancing student learning outcomes. These tips shall enable the educators in achieving a high level of student engagement in their online classroom and making online learning a joyful experience for the students.

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