How to increase student engagement in online learning: 5 best tips

How can you increase student engagement with online learning? How can you craft the best classes and keep your students engaged?

In virtual classrooms, it is difficult to get students to unmute themselves or appear on camera. It's like the student who would rather not raise their hand or participate in class. But now, you cannot read body language to determine what’s wrong.

Teachers everywhere struggle to implement lesson plans that maximize student engagement. How can you keep your struggling students engaged when your top students are ready to move on to the next topic? How can you keep your various students on track in a physical classroom, let alone online?

Today, it is more essential than ever to try new strategies. In this new age of virtual learning, facing the still unmet need to make education accessible for all students, we must change.

How Can We Improve Student Engagement?

1. Accessible technology: Learning with Alpe can occur during work out sessions, washing dishes, or even driving from different destinations. As long as you have a mobile device, you’re ready to go.

2. Chunk the information: Each Alpe course is separated into several lessons to help chunk information for each listener. We want you to learn at your own pace. Alpe also includes a rewind feature that allows you to backtrack certain parts of your lesson where your focus may have drifted.

3. Utilize emotion and storytelling: Our storytelling introductions always place you in a scenario that relates to exactly what you’re going to learn. How awesome is it to let your imagination run free every time you listen?

4. Have your students take action with quizzes and mobile-first assignments: In courses such as our Breakthrough Advertising one, we include a mobile assignment that asks you to upload a photo of any advertisement of your choice, and apply the subtraction tool to mark or highlight any component you think doesn’t belong there. Have some fun and show us your skills!