Student Engagement/Online Learning

1. Student Engagement

1.1. Instructor interaction is important for all students. This factor doesn’t depend on the culture they belong to. (Cortés, A., & Barbera, E., 2013).

2. Specific Tools/Apps

2.1. Literature relating to distance education from the early 1980s reveals an understandable lack of knowledge of the role that technology would play today in our lives. (Perry, E. H., & Pilati, M. L., 2011)

3. Skype

4. Texting

5. Smartphones

6. Webex

7. Adobe Connect

8. Blackboard

9. Evolution of Learning Environment

9.1. Flexibility and less need to be on campus are two features most appealing to students considering online learning (Rodriguez, Ooms, and Montañez, 2008).

10. Potential Barriers to Online Learning

10.1. Ethnicity

10.2. Culture

10.2.1. Cultural issues have an impact on learner and institutional factors. (Cortés, A., & Barbera, E., 2013).

10.3. Age

11. Benefits of Online Learning

12. Strategies

13. Brief History of Online Learning

14. Personal Experience

15. Deployments

15.1. Other Obstacles

15.2. students are not limited to course offerings at a local campus; they may enroll in online courses across the country or around the world. (Perry, E.H. & Pilati, M. L., 2011)