Engagement in Online Teaching & Learning

Create Emotional Connections

Set the Stage (and Expectations) for Students
- Prepare for Session
- Stay Engaged and Participate (Note: Engagement may not be observable, but you can observe participation)
- Utilize Breaks
- Get Enough Sleep (before session)
- Practice Active Listening
- Ask Questions
- Be Open to Learning, Feedback & New Ideas/Perspectives
- Practice Respectful Dialogue
Identify the Relevance – Be explicit about the connections between this content and how students will be evaluated on this content, how they will use the content in future learning or practice, or how it may relate to their
own lives (e.g., experiences with health care for them or for their families/friends).
Encourage Reflection – Reflect on learning goals and connections within the content and activities.
Stimulate Curiosity
Lead Students to A-ha Moments (“Ladder of Competence”)

Be Welcoming and Open
Invite Student Participation
Facilitate Discussions Involving Different Perspectives
Practice and Encourage Admitting When You Don’t Know or Make a Mistake
Mistakes = Learning!

Where are students on the ladder of competence? How can you get them to the next level? Involve students in the conversation.

Unconscious Incompetence	Conscious Incompetence	Conscious Competence	Unconscious Competence	Mindful Competence
Ignorance, misplaced confidence	Aware of limitations	Growing confidence and skills	'Autopilot', risk of complacency	Fully present, sensitive to context and opportunity

(Modified from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Slide 17)

Encourage students self-assess learning progress (at the beginning, middle, and end of the session, you may ask students to self-assess their confidence in meeting the sessions objectives).
Ask students how the session went before it ends (let them know at the beginning of the session you will be asking this).

Create opportunities for active, authentic learning
Apply a growth mindset – Be open to learning; Be open to facilitating conversations involving different perspectives; Admit when you don’t know and then work with students to resolve.
Go beyond informative to reach deeper levels of learning. “Teach Thinking, Not Facts”

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. (2023). Effective Teaching and Learning in 2023: Setting the Digital Stage. This resource is inaccessible due to copyright restrictions.
Brown, PC, Roediger, HL, & McDaniel, MA. (2014). Make it stick: The science of successful learning. Belknap.
Discourses on Learning in Education. Conscious Competence Model of Learning..
Harvard Macy Institute:
MAGNA Online Seminars. (2023). Increasing Student Engagement, Persistence, and Success Online Using
Emotion Science.
Please try out these techniques and send us feedback on the usefulness of this information along with any questions you may have: Amanda Chiplock, achiplock@ohio.edu