Searching for Socrates: How to Engage Online Students

Our university enrolls over 500 students in its online Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. In this paper we present tools that were developed to better engage students with their online learning environment. Over 85% of our students reported that individually and collectively these tool...

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Main Authors: William Swart, Ken MacLeod
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2016-08-01
Series:Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
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Online Access:http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/EA408EI16.pdf
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Summary:Our university enrolls over 500 students in its online Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. In this paper we present tools that were developed to better engage students with their online learning environment. Over 85% of our students reported that individually and collectively these tools were more effective in helping them to understand the material.
ISSN:1690-4524