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In Online Courses, Students Learn More by Doing Than by Watching

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Author(s): Wexler, E.
Date: 2015
Publication: The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: Wired Campus
Citation: Wexler, E. (2015, September 16). In Online Courses, Students Learn More by Doing Than by Watching. The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: Wired Campus. https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/in-online-courses-students-learn-more-by-doing-than-by-watching.
Section on webpage: Active Learning and Student Engagement
Tenets: Treating students as agentic co-educators. Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support. Promoting cooperative learning. Creating cultures of care in online classrooms. Examining (dis)embodiment in virtual teaching/learning.
Annotation: The author of this article discusses studies showing students perform much better in MOOCs when material includes and priorities interactive activities. She also discusses why exactly this is and that popular MOOC producers can and should be doing more to ensure ideas are actually sticking for students.

 

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