Tuned In, Turned On: the I-CARE System for Built-In Student Learning Satisfaction
Online education has progressed from something similar to the old correspondence course model to a multi-modal world of technological opportunities. A large body of literature suggests a phenomenon of faculty reluctance at every level of education to embrace these new modalities into pedagogy. One reason educators shy away from technology is an uncertainty about maintaining sound pedagogical principles within the medium. This presentation will address the latest research on pedagogical methods that lead to high student engagement and learning satisfaction in the online class room environment, and enable educators to make the technology slave to teaching goals, and not the other way around. Using a system the presenter has dubbed I-CARE, attendees will learn to build a course that successfully engages students in the learning process.