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General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)


 * Engaging Students in the Online Environment**

Kimberly Hardy, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, khardy@fscj.edu

Be creative and engage your students! Today’s learners have high expectations with regard to their learning environments, particularly when it comes to technology. It is crucial to engage students immediately, particularly in an online environment where there is not an automatic personal connection.

With the advent of innovative technologies such as virtual worlds, the instructional standards have risen enormously over the past few years and will continue to do so. Today’s learners are extremely knowledgeable about how to use technology and have high expectations with regard to their learning environments. Additionally, they want more personalized learning environments that allow them to connect with their instructors and peers. They are interested in a multimedia approach, including interactive and animated formats.

This session will offer several methods for providing useful engaging and interactive resources that instructors can develop e.g. multimedia clips that can be used in your online or blended class. This presentation will showcase a number of these that have been developed by this presenter and detail the different methods used to create these videos and modules using a variety of free and low-cost programs from simple tutorials created for students to methods of engaging students in developing their own creations with individual assignments and/or group projects.

Novice, Intermediate, online, student engagement, multimedia