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Online Learning: Engaging the Learner

Online Learning: Engaging the Learner. Introductions. Mary Beth Kyer Founder, Euphoria Workforce Solutions www.euphoriaworkforce.com www.learnerhill.com Kymberleigh Richards Director Studies, Learner Hill www.learnerhill.com. Agenda. Elements of Online Learning

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Online Learning: Engaging the Learner

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  1. Online Learning: Engaging the Learner

  2. Introductions Mary Beth Kyer Founder, Euphoria Workforce Solutions www.euphoriaworkforce.com www.learnerhill.com Kymberleigh Richards Director Studies, Learner Hill www.learnerhill.com

  3. Agenda Elements of Online Learning Barriers to Learning Online and how to remove them How to Enhance and Engage the Learner A Demonstration of the Learner Hill Platform and online classroom

  4. Who’s Studying English Online? • Global Language Industry is approximately $40 billion • 50% of which is English as a Second Language • Online Language Education is growing 22% per year • Expected to reach $1.69 billion in 2014. • E-Learning is being used to allow learning to take place the learner’s convenience - any place, anytime. • Sources: ‘’The Changing Enterprise’–ACE 2002; World Bank & IFC; IDP Education Australia 2002; Philp G. Altbach–Tertiary Education & Management (No.1, 2004); UK Open University, 2005i, AmbientInsight

  5. Elements of Online Learning Online learning includes: • Live online classes • Self-study • Language labs • Blended Learning

  6. Trends in Online Learning • Self-paced materials • social media • blogs • discussion boards • videos • live chat • video conferencing

  7. Classroom vs. Online

  8. Barriers Myth # 1: • no one-on-one time • no personalized attention • no individual attention • difficult to ask questions

  9. Removing the Barriers Truth: • The Chat board can be used to ask questions during the class • Instructors are taught to engage the learners • Learners can get the instructions attention by raising their hand in an online classroom

  10. Barriers Myth # 2 • Classes are not interactive • The instruction is more teacher driven as opposed to student centered

  11. Removing the Barriers Truth: • Instructor can call on the learn to answer a question as the names of all participants are displayed in the sidebar. • Instructors can assign multiple microphones to participants in order to engage in a class discussion

  12. Enhance and Engage • Interactive courseware that allows “learning by doing”, arouses interest and generates motivation. “If you tell me, I will listen If you show me, I will see If you let me experience, I will learn.” Lao-Tse, 5th century BC

  13. Enhance and Engage

  14. Enhance and Engage

  15. Platform

  16. Links www.learnerhill.com www.euphoriaworkforce.com www.englishtown.com www.adobe.com/products/connect www.webex.com www.adobe.com/product/captivate www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

  17. Contact Mary Beth Kyer • mbkyer@euphoriaworkforce.com Kymberleigh Richards • krichards@learnerhill.com

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