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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description | 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. |
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spelling | doaj.art-d6388380319e4136a5b707f01c67b4952022-12-21T17:57:38ZengInternational Institute of Informatics and CyberneticsJournal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics1690-45242016-08-011447377Searching for Socrates: How to Engage Online StudentsWilliam SwartKen MacLeodOur 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.http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/EA408EI16.pdf Online LearningSocratic MethodCase Method Based LearningPedagogy |
spellingShingle | William Swart Ken MacLeod Searching for Socrates: How to Engage Online Students Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics Online Learning Socratic Method Case Method Based Learning Pedagogy |
title | Searching for Socrates: How to Engage Online Students |
title_full | Searching for Socrates: How to Engage Online Students |
title_fullStr | Searching for Socrates: How to Engage Online Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Searching for Socrates: How to Engage Online Students |
title_short | Searching for Socrates: How to Engage Online Students |
title_sort | searching for socrates how to engage online students |
topic | Online Learning Socratic Method Case Method Based Learning Pedagogy |
url | http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/EA408EI16.pdf
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