Join us at Achieving the Dream’s annual flagship event, DREAM, for a discussion of technology-enabled instructional strategies designed to grow students’ self-directed learning in online STEM courses.
Building Students’ Confidence and Learning Skills in Online Classes: Lessons from the Postsecondary Collaborative
February 19, 2025, 10:30-11:30am ET
Online courses are popular with students and faculty. Their popularity belies a troubling reality: student outcomes in online courses are lower than those of in-person courses and minoritized students fare worse.
What contributes to lower outcomes and inequities? Research suggests a range of contributors that show up as academic mindsets and behaviors that can undermine learning and achievement, such as weak motivation and depressed participation.
The Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative is working to boost online course outcomes for minoritized students. It has developed technology-enabled instructional strategies designed to grow students’ self-directed learning (SDL), or how students manage their learning, in online STEM courses.
In this session, researchers and faculty will present and discuss the evidence and intervention, share implementation successes and challenges, and explore case-making and implementation strategies.
Presenters
- Krystal Thomas, Senior Education Researcher, SRI Education
- Amy E. Brown, Research Associate, Community College Research Center
- Brian Jones, Associate Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness, Odessa College
Learn more on the Conference program website.
Related Resources
- Prompt Strategy Overview
- Student-Peer Interaction and Networking (SPIN) Strategy Overview
- Video Strategy Overview
Categories: Event
Tags: Instructional Strategies Postsecondary Learning Self-directed Learning