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$/sci/pdfs/EA408EI16.pdf
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spelling doaj.art-d6388380319e4136a5b707f01c67b4952022-12-21T17:57:38ZengInternational Institute of Informatics and CyberneticsJournal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics1690-45242016-08-011447377Searching for Socrates: How to Engage Online StudentsWilliam SwartKen MacLeodOur university enrolls over 500 students in its online Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. In this paper we present tools that were developed to better engage students with their online learning environment. Over 85% of our students reported that individually and collectively these tools were more effective in helping them to understand the material.http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/EA408EI16.pdf Online LearningSocratic MethodCase Method Based LearningPedagogy
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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
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title_full_unstemmed Searching for Socrates: How to Engage Online Students
title_short Searching for Socrates: How to Engage Online Students
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topic Online Learning
Socratic Method
Case Method Based Learning
Pedagogy
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