Ever since the outbreak of coronavirus, the education sector has been deeply impacted. The students were forced to stay at home and experience the online learning environment. For some, this was a new experience to them.
Initially, people were hesitant about adopting online learning, but over time, students and parents began to see and take advantage of the benefits of online learning. Which provides convenience and flexibility to students.
However, it is dire task for the teachers to get familiar with virtual learning methods. For educators, it has become necessary to look for new ideas and ways to connect with students in a virtual environment. Today, educators are working harder than ever to ensure that students are successful, going beyond and beyond to prepare them for online classrooms, and changing their strategies and plans as needed.
Getting students’ engagement in an online learning environment is one of the challenges educators often encounter. With so many distractions that hinder online learning, it is of utmost importance for educators to come up with strategies that capture students’ attention throughout their teaching sections. In this article, we give out tips on how educators can improve student engagement in an online learning environment.
Tips to keep your students involved in an online learning environment:
- At the beginning of each lesson, tell your students a fascinating fact.
- To get students to participate in live classes, begin with a warm-up activity.
- To keep the students interested, use movement exercises.
- Combine visual aids components into your teaching to help the students learn and understand.
- Break things up with creative exercises and activities.
- Assign group tasks that require them to collaborate with one another.
- Create an online medium for your students to interact e.g whatsapp group.
Online learning if done right can be the most effective method for supplementing traditional classroom learning, and help students in their learning. In order to prevent students from forgetting what they have already learned, teachers must reinforce what students have already learned.
