Students who may be too shy to speak up about difficulties can be enoouraged by the faculty to bring up issues. Once the rapport with faculty is established in this way, we can discover how to respond to studetnts' needs.
The student that in the classroom today is much different than the student that sat in my classroom 29 years ago when I started teaching. Social media, instant response, social pressures, and the value of education have all changed the behavior and attitudes of today's students. When we understand that these students are different and need to be reached in a different manner, education can be successful.
Continued building of alliances is certainly a goal to exceed the expectations of a positive campus climate.
As educators, we need to interact with our students and model good environment for students to participate and suceed during the teaching course. At the beginning of any course we need to direct them how to conduct the course and engage the students to compromise themself to succeed. Despite they need to pass quizzes to get good grades, as educators we need to improve the learning process not only to passing courses but to gain critical thinking about the learning getting. We also allow them to receive tutoring and extra help during the course.
Mutual engagement is key in distance /online learning.
it is important to present information to students in a way where the learning process is painless, interesting, and promotes initiate ans self discovery
Working alliances are the professional relationships between students and administrative personal. It is the process that involves the establishment of rapport, trust, and a mutual agreement about goals and action plans. Building strong working alliances with online students is fundamental to increasing positive student outcomes. Building rapport with your students is am essential strategy to online learning.
Engaging and retaining online learners, like many instances in education requires building meaningful professional relationships. This is something I live by! Learning ways to engage with students online is supper important to what I do.
I think one of the biggest points for me was the difference between customer service and Helping Professions. It is important to remember that our job is not necessarily to please our students (although, of course, we want them to be happy) but to help them be their best. Sometimes that isn't fun or comfortable, but we want them to succeed.
The foundation of building a collaborative, supportive online learning experience is establishing rapport, trust, and agreement on goals and action plans. It requires the instructor to establish a point of contact, proactive, ongoing communication, and being responsive to questions and comments.
I found it interesting that across the industry of education that efforts to retain students was moderate at best. I know it's front and center at my institution - it's called SOS - Save Our Students.
We want to retain our students and in doing so we want to have not only frequent connections with our students but also quality interactions.
Student retention requires showing instructor support and encouragement to the student. Retention is improved when the resources of the course is sufficient for students to understand the material and become capable of working on the homeworks and other assignments. All of these factors will never create an environment of 100% retention because the students' level of effort is needed to make it through the class successfully.
I learned that building relationships with students and providing multiple means of communication help students engage with the course and do better overall. I make sure to provide my students various ways of communicating with me through text, phone, email or zoom meetings. I leave it up to them to choose their preferred method of communication as long as they feel comfortable. I also ensure to communicate with my class weekly through general announcements, personal reminders and cuztomized feedback. Communication is really a great approach to retain students.
In this module, I learned about the importance of retention and creating a community. Students in an online environment need to feel a sense of community and that the instructor as well as the institution cares about them by establishing good communication. The student has a higher possibility of leaving an institution if they feel they aren't being heard or understood. We must encourage, motivate, and keep them focused by creating a work alliance. We still need to enforce policy and procedures by making them accountable for their learning as well as inform them why following these standards are important especially in the workforce. I have encountered these challenges in the F2F learning environment and I believe it is also important in the online environment.
If we think about our own experiences as student the answers to engagement will be clear. Those schools that we have the most affinity to were those where we found a peer community, comfortable and inviting environment and professors that we knew cared about us. Applying those to the environment we are creating witll have that same impact.
That the frequency and quality of contact with the student (client) will result in the most positve faculty/student alliance. I have noted that a simple, short compliment goes a long way with a student and seems to supercharge their motivation. We have a professional standard point system and when points are taken off for late homework, wearing slippers to school, etc, they really get bugged and are protective of those points. I like being more positive, than punative, and look forward on how to get closer relationships going with students in the sterile, virtual enviornment.
Maintaining communication with students is crucial when it comes to retention. Whether it be a straight A student, or the student who might be more accidemically challenged, feedback from their instructor show the student that the instructor cares about their performance. I think if the instructor is communicating, the student is less likely to want to give up.
I try to show an active and positive presence in my classes, from the very beginning. Recently, I have begun hosting a ”Live Welcome Session” before our 1st lesson is due. Students get a warm welcome and a tour of our online course. It absolutely helps students to get a strong start when they can be confident that someone is there to offer guidance and help through tough spots.
Many times institutions want to blame other factors in losing student enrollment. These stats are helpful to see the important role the institution plays in student retention. It makes sense, when students feel connected, valued, and heard, they are likely to want to keep that connection.
